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Florida’s Votes Go Unclaimed, but This Time Less Depends on Them
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 08, 2012 01:44pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | LIZETTE ALVAREZ |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 02:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MIAMI — Another presidential election has come and gone. Only not in Florida, where through much of Wednesday the swing state’s 29 electoral votes remained an unclaimed, though largely inconsequential, prize.
One day after President Obama was re-elected, Florida, where he held a slim lead, was still too close to call — stuck in postelection mode once again as several counties tallied absentee ballots. Luckily, unlike the 2000 presidential contest, when the country’s attention hung on hanging chads, this year’s election made Florida’s choice an afterthought.
“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a Miami documentary filmmaker and avid election night Twitter user, said with a smile. “We’re now an irrelevant laughingstock.” |
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