Did Obama Just Use the Sotomayor Nomination To Lock in Florida?
By Bill Pascoe
CQ Politics
May 27, 2009
President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor -- born to a Puerto Rican family in the South Bronx -- to be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States may be the kind of political master stroke that puts Obama on the glidepath to reelection.
How? By locking in Florida, a state without which any hopes of a GOP comeback in 2012 dwindle virtually to nothing.
In the 15 presidential elections going back to 1952 -- of which Republicans have won nine, and Democrats six -- Florida was part of the winning GOP coalition in each of the party's nine national victories.
In fact, one has to go all the way back to 1924 to find the last time the GOP won the presidency without winning Florida.
(More here.)
CQ Politics
May 27, 2009
President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor -- born to a Puerto Rican family in the South Bronx -- to be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States may be the kind of political master stroke that puts Obama on the glidepath to reelection.
How? By locking in Florida, a state without which any hopes of a GOP comeback in 2012 dwindle virtually to nothing.
In the 15 presidential elections going back to 1952 -- of which Republicans have won nine, and Democrats six -- Florida was part of the winning GOP coalition in each of the party's nine national victories.
In fact, one has to go all the way back to 1924 to find the last time the GOP won the presidency without winning Florida.
(More here.)
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