Trump won with 306 electoral votes. Even without Florida’s 29 Electoral votes, he would have still the 2016 election with 277 EVs.
Not all of these felons are going to register and vote. The vast majority of them are going to sit on their backsides and/or are going to reoffend and regain felon status. You can’t be on probation, serving an active sentence or on parole and have your rights restored.
seriously?
You're willing to write off florida because we might win without it? do you know who most of the prison population is and who they're likely to vote for?
this is some of the most short-sighted thinking I've run across in a long time.
I agree that the majority of felons are apolitical.
I also agree with the premise that once you do your time, you should have your abilty to vote and bear arms restored (perhaps with the exception of certain political crimes or violent crimes).
Convicts are their own worst enemies, usually.
What a bizzare and rambling post. Who said that I was writing off Florida? The point of what I wrote was two-fold.
First, the original premise was that it was IMPOSSIBLE to win a Presidential election without Florida. That’s demonstrably false. 2016 is a perfect example.
Second, 19 other States have the exact same law that Florida has just enacted, including numerous swing States and Red States.
Guess what, they are still swing States and Red States in spite of said law.
I don’t particularly agree with the Amendment, but I’m sick and tired of prognosticators telling me that the sky is falling and automatically allocating votes based on this, when they don’t have any actual evidence that said prognostication is accurate.
Florida isn’t as purple as you might think. Yesterday was the perfect storm for Democrats, and if Florida was a true swing/purple State, Gullium and Nelson should have won.
They didn’t. Florida is trending right, not left.