[N3WBI3]

In 2004 when FLA was very important to the dems there were about 700K people voting in the demo primaries..

9,391,597 total registered voters — 42% Dem., 39% Rep other, 19% none

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This year

about 1.6 Million people voted in the democratic primary

10,208,431 total registered voters — 41% Democratic, 37% Republican
3% Other

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Can I see a source for you’re statement that hundreds of thousands of dems jumped parties to vote?

[counterpunch]

It was "at least 10,000". Thousands switch or join parties ahead of primary

And they weren't all Democrats switching to Republican. They were mostly independents registering Republican.

Turn out was much higher for Republican than Democrat. All of the interest in Florida was on the GOP because of the Democrats having no delegates. Anyone who wanted to have an impact one way or another chose to register as a Republican.