The problem of retirees in Florida is that they cluster, and they choose to live with like-minded people, so you have dense concentrations of extreme views in small areas that can be utilized to distort elections when the drawing of the election district maps happens every ten years. This is how the Republicans can win two-thirds of the seats in the Florida legislature while being a minority party in the state.
The Republicans won one fairly honest election and changed the laws to ensure the majority party, the Democrats, would never win another one.
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