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Kinda? Maybe?

Florida, at least for local Florida stuff, like what GP is talking about, has had R governor, senate, and house for 25+ years. With a supermajority R for most of that I think.

Not really anymore. The house seats are 20R and 8D, they haven't voted blue for president since Obama, and haven't elected a democrat as governor since the 90s. Voter registration is also heavily skewed republican.

To be fair, "since Obama" isn't very long ago, and Hillary and Biden weren't very inspiring candidates, to say the least.

It was 18 years ago, and I did point out other metrics to support my case.

The 2016 election was 10 years ago.

I get the sentiment but Obama won his second term in 2012 (12 years ago) and the last Democratic governor was in 1998 (28 years ago!)

Florida hasn't been purple in a long time.

> 2012 (12 years ago)

14 years ago. If you just woke up from a two year nap, well, good luck catching up with everything that's happened.

Interestingly, both FL and TX had the same vote for Trump in 2024: 56.1%

The people, sure. The elected officials? Nope.

It was one 25 years ago.

It used to be, just like Virginia used to be solidly red. But Trump won Florida by more than Harris won New York.