Florida Voter File – Churn

Florida Voter File – Churn

Some weekend projects start with a simple question, this past weekend was no different. “How much churn is there in Florida’s voter file?” We wanted to get a sense of how much churn was in the voter file leading up to the 2020 election. We took the...
Florida GOP is Winning the Voter Registration Battle

Florida GOP is Winning the Voter Registration Battle

Statewide elections in Florida are among the most competitive and hotly contested elections in the United States. Since 2012, six statewide elections have been decided by less than 1.2% while three have been won by fewer than 35,000 votes. Once you realize there are...
2014 Florida Governors Race Results by DMA

2014 Florida Governors Race Results by DMA

Thinking about 2018 with a potential matchup of Rick Scott v Senator Bill Nelson, I was messing around with scripts to combine data sets and came up with vote totals for the 2014 campaign for Florida Governor featuring Rick Scott v Charlie Crist by Florida DMA...
How divided is Florida?

How divided is Florida?

I went to bed last night thinking about about DecisionDeskHQ’s attempt to make a nationwide precinct map.  It is a challenging and cool project. Thinking about this as I slumbered, I awoke wondering just ‘how divided are we in Florida at the precinct...
How divided is Florida?

TV DMAs by County

I was looking for a data-set this morning for a GIS project, and I thought the data would be relatively easy to find.  It wasn’t. I did find what I wanted in one case, but someone was charging $199 for the data. So, I spent a couple of hours researching,...