If the official votes are correct, that would imply that a lot of Dems voted Repub or virtually no NPAs voted for the Dems But there is internal canvas information and media articles citing polls that indicate otherwise. Broward is the most liberal/Dem county in florida and there were indications that the majority of NPAs there(thousands) were voting Dem rather than Repub- as in other such areas. And Media articles, polls of Hispanics in Dade showed the majority for the first time ever voted more dem than repub in other races. More hispanic votes for Dem governor candidate(Davis) than the Repub Crist and the Dem challenger in that area state house race won for the first time I can remember. Broward/Dade is majority "minorities"- large hispanic and black areas. The black areas usually vote strongly Dem. This time a lot more Hispanics seemed to be voting Dem. Yet it didn't show up in the official votes of CD21.
Similar for Pasco and Lake counties in CD5. Both of these ES&S counties had high undervotes, as did the ES&S machines in Dade and Broward.
Polling data might shed light of which of the possible options explain the official votes that the candidates don't believe based on their pre-election expectations.
Either lots of Dems voted Repub or virtually none of the thousands of NPAs voted for Dems and no Repubs(including lots of Hispanics) voted Dem,
or touch screen swithing/compiler "glitches" affected these areas as they were documented to in 2004
or the high undervotes in these counties were mostly Dem votes (as in Sarasota)
Anyone know of polling or exit poll info that would shed light on this?
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