The Importance Of Elections In The Sunshine States

Florida, the “Sunshine State”, has always had a big role for voting in the elections. According to the WEEK there a few reasons for that: Florida is a closed primary, they are more comparable to running a general election than most states, and they take a lot of delegates (WEEK staff 2012). The WEEK is a weekly British news magazine which also publishes a US edition. My goal in this paper is to explain why Florida holds so much importance. As we know, elections are not won by popular vote but they are won by gaining the most electoral votes. The electoral college was created to ensure that everyone has an equal say in choosing the national president. Today there are 538 electors altogether from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These people consist of state party officials and they are chosen at party’s state conventions. Although after winning in Electoral
The two candidates spent so much for one obvious reason: Florida is a swing state. When we look back to previous elections we see that in the past two elections Florida voted for a Democratic president, and in the two elections before that, Republicans were chosen. We see that Florida’s majority can go to any party. In contrast Charles Minshew, a contact reporter, states “Since 1936, Floridians' pick for president has lined up with the overall winner in 18 out of 20 elections. That track record, the state's growing diversity and its 29 electoral votes make the Sunshine State a perpetual target of campaigns” (Minshew 2016). Also if we look at New York as a contrasting example, most presidents that are voted for the most are Democrats. The last time a republican was chosen as a president was in 1984. This is shown by Sarah Wheaton in her article for the New York Times, entitled “New York: Not as Blue as It Could