Florida (and republican) update
Our trip to Florida is over. We were in the state during the primary, more by coincidence than anything. I think that the facts of the primary proved the last post - that there wasn't a lot of excitement in Florida over the republican presidential primary. For one thing, Romney didn't receive even 50% of the votes, and more importantly, even with all of the furor in the Tea party and the republicans stating that their number one priority is to get rid of Obama, their primary turnout was down over 4 years ago, when it wasn't that great.
Since then, the Nevada caucuses have taken place and the same thing happened. Romney failed to get 50% and the turnout was down. In that time period, very positive economic news has come out. If this keeps up, the presidential general election in november is going to be a landslide.