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Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.
That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.
That’s pretty purple.
33% of voteing age people in Florida didn’t vote. 37% voted for Trump, 30% for Harris.
The non voters already took themselves out of the equation.
By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.
Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.
Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.
So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.
Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.