What really sucks on the Panhandle is the Eastern/Central Time zone change line just East of Panama City.
On the big plus side, Big Media would no longer be able to convince people coming home from work that the polls had closed an hour early.
True.
I always think of that time zone split in terms of elections...that’s the most conservative / Republican part of the state - remember how the networks almost pulled off stealing the election by announcing repeatedly the polls were all closed in Florida for an hour while they were still open there, and even many of them calling the state for Gore while they were still open there, which was proven to have severely depressed turnout in that part of the state during that last hour of polls being open. Had they not done that, all of that fiasco with the recounts of recounts, court battles, etc. would not have occurred as Bush would have won the state by several thousand more votes. Amazing how close they came to pulling it off. https://youtu.be/EoBjCEWadi0?t=1h22m52s