Southeast Florida The Political Future Of Tomorrow

When one thinks of a particular state the identity of the people within that state comes to mind. A good example is the state of New York with its New-Yorkers or the state of Texas with their sense of pride. Unfortunately this is not the case for the state of Florida who has yet to find an identity that will describe the nature of its people. We cannot say that we are southerners because the term has a connotation of Civil War resentment. Most of the Floridians in the south do not even know the meaning of such a word. As confusing as the identity of the state is, the identity of a political party shares such confusions. There is no one particular identity or trait that can describe neither Floridians nor its political agenda. We are a state of retirement, a vacation destination and a clueless participant of politics. As Dr. Corrigan stated in one of the lectures… “Florida it is the sample of the rest of the country in years to come, the diversity that forms the south east part of the state will form part of the country… (Corrigan, 2002). In other words Florida is experiencing what we will see at a national level since the diversity of Floridians in the southern pa

Democrats are the majority of registered voters in the Southeastern part of the state of Florida. In 1994 the four major counties that form the southeast portion of Florida, Palm Beach, Broward Miami-Dade, and Monroe elected the democratic candidates Lawton Chiles and Buddy MacKay for Florida’s governor (Division of Elections, 1994). In the 1998 governor’s race the counties were evenly divided. The majority of voters in Broward county and Palm Beach county again voted for the democratic candidates whereas in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties the majority of voters voted republican (Division of Elections, 1998). In the Presidential election of 2000 all four South-East Florida counties elected by majority, the democratic candidates Vice-president Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman (Division of Elections, 2000). There was an average of forty seven percent of voter’s turn out in 1998 in the governor’s race and a seventy percent turnout in the presidential election. The democratic candidate for governor of Florida will win the South East counties of the state. These counties can very well determine the next Florida governor since they are amongst the most populated areas in the state. According to the 2000 Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, Broward County had a total of 887,764 registered voters, Miami-Dade County 896,912 registered voters, Monroe 48,409 registered voters and Palm Beach County 656,694 registered voters which make up a total of 2,489,779 registered voters in those four counties. The state had a total of 8,752,717 registered voters in 2000 (Division of Elections 2000). If numbers do not fail the governor’s race in South-East Florida belongs to the democrats.

It is a county of senior citizens and faithful democrats who have played a tremendous role in the last couple of political elections at a state and national level. One of the most controversial elections in United States History was the presidential election of 2000.

The democratic governor candidate Bill McBride will come up as the winner of South Florida if statistics do not fail. Although there is a sense of victory in South F

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