Description

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This book places the 2014 elections in Florida in historical perspective and provides an analysis of the outcomes of each of the state and federal races held in that year: Governor, State Constitutional Offices, the US Congress and the Florida State House of Representatives and the State Senate. It draws on information from exit polls and data from state voter registration rolls and county and district election outcomes. It also utilizes campaign expenditure data from the files of the Florida Department of State and from the US Elections Commission. The book provides a discussion of the context within which the elections took place and of the strategies and tactics employed by the candidates. An explanation for the outcome of the gubernatorial race is provided through an analysis of voting coalitions that supported the leading candidates. It closes with an analysis of the competitiveness of elections in Florida.

About the Author

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Robert E. Crew, Jr. is Professor of Political Science and Director of the graduate program in applied American politics at Florida State University. He has written widely on Florida politics and has managed and consulted on political campaigns in Florida and elsewhere. Mary R. Anderson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science and International Studies department at the University of Tampa. She specializes in research on public opinion and policy including the influence of psychology on political behavior. Her work has been published in The American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Journal of Human Rights and Human Behavior. She is the author of three books. She lives in Tampa with her husband and three children.