In 2012, Florida remained the state that can't vote straight.
President Barack Obama sent
That agenda has included stricter voting laws, which include shortening the number of early voting days from 14 to 8. Combined with bad planning and incompetence on the local level on election day itself, the state's latest 'electile disfunction' marred the election.
Long lines at the polls, confusing amendments and last-minute absentee ballot requests made for the perfect storm of trouble, resulting in the state being left blank on the electoral map for days after the November 6th election.
To everyone's relief, it didn't matter as President Obama secured enough delegates elsewhere to render
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Meanwhile, Governor Rick Scott remains deeply unpopular, gaining only 36% approval according to the latest Quinnpiac University survey. Halfway through his first term, there's already speculation of who might run against him in 2014.
Gov. Scott's most likely opponent is his predecessor, Charlie Crist.
This was the year Crist completed the cycle, going from a "conservative as it gets" Republican governor in 2009, to bucking both parties in a failed run for Senate as an independent in 2010, to finally filing papers to become a Democrat in 2012.
Whether Crist runs for his old job or not remains to be seen, but as 2013 begins,
