Hey now, the idiots in that district did, not Florida as a whole. It's the same mental midgets that voted Marion Barry as mayor after his felony drug convictions, and the same mental midgets who voted Ray Nagin back as mayor of New Orleans after his screw ups. Basically, the idiot democratic voters.
Now up here in the Florida Panhandle, democrats are far and few between.
We had the same deal here in Indiana with Julia Carson.
She was functionally illiterate, and in her last few years nearly comatose. Yet she kept getting re-elected to Congress from a mostly minority district.
The upside of this is that it is done via Republican gerrymandering making the surrounding districts almost rat-proof. The downside is that you get these whacko rats locked in districts long term with mega seniority, so when rats control congress you get committee chairs like Waxman and Pelosi.