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Hardly the first time Florida has purged its rolls of liberal voters.
But after three Democratic presidents worth of shenanigans, nobody at the DOJ Civil Rights Division seems to have given any shits.
You'd think Biden might care, even if Clinton and Obama slept through this shit.
Angry people vote. They'd rather sell the idea that Floridians are being disenfranchised by the GOP than stop them. Going to court will cost money, but fundraising from angry voters raises money.
Fundraising when you don't have the votes mostly just sends money to scam-artist political consultants.
The DNC has written off Florida. They spend money there to force the GOP to defend it, but it's solidly red and that's not going to change with 10% more registered Democrats.
Don't get me wrong, it's a bad strategy. Florida is worth fighting for, and we should be speaking to the voters and making the arguments that Democrats are better for Floridians. But Democrats don't seem to be interested in that.
They spent a whole shit-ton of money on a meth-head gubernatorial candidate not that long ago. And they're not afraid to piss hundreds of millions away in Tennessee and South Carolina. Its too big a prize to just ignore.
Florida is only worth fighting for in so far as Democrats will fight to keep anyone left of John McCain from winning a primary. As soon as you get to the general election, they're going to run the same old "We're Nice Republicans" gambit and lose to a bunch of frothing face-eaters.
I got kicked many years back (Florida). Just checked, still good.