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Related: About this forumWhy did the Moderate White voters and Conservative Black voters in FL elected DeSantis instead of
Andrew Gillum?
The 2018 Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee for FL who happens to be black.
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,887 posts)I wasn't paying a lot of attention.
And your question is a very good one. I hope someone who does have a clue will come along and tell us!
LonePirate
(13,874 posts)I am guessing opposition to a progressive candidate is why conservative black voters went red.
radical noodle
(8,395 posts)I don't know if that's the reason, but I suspect it might be. I thought Gwen Graham might have won.
brush
(57,219 posts)Also the percentage of Latino voters and Asian American voters who went red?
It's important to give those numbers because of the way you phrased your post...making it seem like Black voters were a huge part of that red result. I'm betting that it was a small minority of Black voters and conversely majority of Latino voters afraid of the socialism bogeyman the Gillum was painted as.
YorkRd
(349 posts)Democrats scare middle class voters of all types but when most hear about socialism they think Maduro, Ortega or Castro and not Denmark. Heck, Denmark had to come out and say they were capitalist.
Deuxcents
(19,515 posts)nkpolitics1212
(8,617 posts)It would have been like the Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama ticket of FL except Gwen Graham is Bob Grahams daughter not wife.