As Republicans and Democrats jockey to select their candidate for upcoming presidential elections, it is the year before the primaries that has the greatest influence on electoral outcomes. Donations during this period indicate the strength of the respective political parties and the geographic partisan strongholds.
In this presentation we consider the geographic distribution of campaign contributions in one of the four major electoral states, Florida. This will give us an overview of the nature of Florida partisanship during the 2012 election, when the Republican party was searching for a viable candidate and the Democratic Party rallied behind President Obama. We will then focus on implications this will have in future elections.
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