Saturday, November 29, 2014

Florida Governor election Stats

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Florida Governor's election where only 50.51% of the registered voters turned out to vote, have Democrats complaining.  Now the Democrats want to change the statewide races back to presidential years as they used to be in Florida fifty years ago. They think they can get more of their people to the polls.

2,865,343 votes for Rick Scott.
2,801,198 votes for Democrat Charlie Crist

And since the Democratic party is always citing the Koch Brothers for their whopping contributions to the Republican Party, I thought I would add this one in for a little trivia:
George Soros, the wealthy left-leaning investor, gave the Florida Democratic Party $1 million in the final days of the election.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article3546476.html#storylink=cpy


Republican Party of Florida
Amount raised: $68.7M
Number of checks: 91,220
Rick Scott’s political committee
Amount raised: $45.8M
Amount raised by his campaign: $16.7M
Number of checks: 12,888

 
Florida Democratic Party
Amount raised: $27.8M
Number of checks: 128,573
Charlie Crist’s political committee
Amount raised: $30M
Amount raised by his campaign: $14.7M
Number of checks: 90,939

Source: Florida Division of Elections, Herald/Times research

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article3546476.html#storylink=cpy

1 comment:

Lynn Anderson said...

I know, it's against the First Amendment but I still say that to make elections fair, everyone should be playing with the same amount of money--an even playing field, if you will. Money talks, we all know it. But then again, the city of LW had essentially $70,000 to use against those who did NOT want the bond and still lost. You just never know.