Nelson's 2012 performance compared to Scott's 2014 performance

Scott wasn't very popular in 2014.

The only real reason he has a chance of winning is because he handled Hurricane Irma (?) amazingly well.

That placed him as a popular figure.

in 2012, Nelson was helped by Obama being at the top of the ballot

hell, Nelson got 300,000 more votes than Obama

so pretty much all the people who voted for Obama, were willing to vote for him

which makes sense

who else wuld they vote for? The Green Party candidate ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Florida,_2012

there wasn't even a Green Party candidate

there were independents who got 126,000 and 82,000

anyway, 2006 was in the midst of the worst days of the Bush era, so Nelson had an easy environment

2012 was Obama's easy re-election vs Romney

2018 will be Nelson's hardest year since 2000

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 so what's your take on the fact immigration doesn't even reach the 50% of voters as very important

According to what Walter posted in Data

It's well up in the 40s, so there's that

and who's cares what the majority thinks, this is not mob rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Florida,_2012

@FLanon

do you even recognize the loser who lost against Nelson in 2012

"Connie Mack IV"

Unfortunately, democracy is in fact mob rule

What's the take on this Giulaini statement?

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 you're right it's not a democracy, it's a republic, which means you need a substantial more than a simple majority to implement your agenda

So how do you expect that to happen without even a simple majority?

Trump didn't use campaign funds to pay off the hooker he shlepped

therefore, no campaign finance violation

@zakattack04 strongman

unfortunately, that's not what we got

since Trump is, in fact,

a weakman

What are you talking about

The whole point of a republic is to protect against mob rule and "strongmen"

It allows the minority to still have a say even if they are a minority

So my point is, immigration reform isn't going to happen unless you get that number to 60%+

Doesn't matter

Lol

If Trump were to act as a strongman

and push, and threaten, and fight

like a strongman would

he'd have Congress in the palm of his hands

Yeah that worked before lol