Is it because people like yourself rile them up over the years? you bet. we built a machine in florida politics, and i go back to the dawn of time, 1988, the first george herbert walker bush campaign, and i ve been around the block for a long time. i ve done a lot of races in my home state, on the fifth generation floridian. what is happening in florida there are three big factors. one, the republicans built a plan, back in 1994, to destroy the democratic party of florida, to wreck their foreign teams, to cut off their fund raising, to drive them into small enclaves in the state. it was a successful plan, it was executed brilliantly. second, florida has become less florida. a lot of older, white retirees have moved here from the wisconsin, ohio, pennsylvania, they were getting out of the expensive north and moving to the inexpensive south. they are the folks who hated the high taxes, social safety net, and they were driven here