'Where's the blue wave?' Voter data show Florida Democrats aren't surging #bluedud #wipeout

[Free Vulcan]

What blue wave?

While it’s notched four consecutive wins in local bellwether races, Florida’s Democratic Party has lost a share of its registered voters in Florida since 2016 and the percentage of Democrats casting vote-by-mail absentee ballots this month trails those mailed in by Republicans, according to new figures from the state’s elections division.

A Democratic blue wave might still come. But so could a Republican red tide.

After all, this is purple Florida, the nation’s biggest swing state, where hard-to-predict elections are won on the margins and a 2-point win for a top-of-the-ticket candidate can look like a landslide.

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/08/13/wheres-the-blue-wave-voter-data-show-florida-democrats-arent-surging-555957

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Key points:

Democrats now account for 37 percent of the rolls, compared with 35 percent for Republicans, who have not lost any proportional ground since 2016. The share of third-party voters has marginally increased, and no-party-affiliation voters, nicknamed NPAs, have increased their ranks by 3 points in Florida.

Despite tens of thousands of Hurricane Maria evacuees flocking to Florida after the storm pummeled Puerto Rico, the overall proportion of active Hispanic voters — 16 percent — on the voter rolls has remained nearly the same since the 2016 general election.

The Democratic Party is also becoming a majority nonwhite party, with 48 percent of its registered voters in Florida identified as non-Hispanic white.

As a whole it doesn't look promising for the Rats to make ground in FL this Nov.