“Florida Democrats don’t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ‘Florida!!!’ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,” Politico reports.
“But their excitement around the news is less about ‘why?’ and more about leveraging Swift’s celebrity status to fill the blank space for beleaguered voters tired of losing to Republicans.
Good luck getting the Latino voters in Florida vote blue. There’s been a generational effort to convince the Cuban and Puerto Rican voters that anyone left of Mussolini is Fidel Castro incarnate.
I love my Latino brothers and sisters, but Florida is not the place to hope for a blue wave.
Actually Latins in Florida are not a block. Young Latin voters tend to vote Democrat- older Republican.
I thought Latinos in general, not just in FL, tend to lean more conservative? For years there was the narrative that Dems would just wipe out Republicans if they got the Latino vote on board, but Latinos tend to be more conservative-leaning in general, are themselves against illegal immigration, probably trend more religious, and really haven’t come out to help Democrats.
Democrats in general tend to try to pull in alot of groups that don’t turn out to be very reliable voters. Oftentimes I think they’re trying to do the right thing for these various marginalized groups, but then those groups just don’t have their back when they’re really needed. Youth voters might be getting a bit better in recent years, but that hasn’t always been the case.
In 2020, Latino voters voted Biden 2-1. They’ve been reliably Democratic, but just not to the extent of Black voters. They have recently trended more Republican, but that doesn’t make them conservative (at least in the big picture everything falls on a single political axis).
It’s really hard to see that Latino’s just can’t see that they’re voting against their interest when they vote conservative, at least in this country.