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United States presidential elections in Florida

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Nominator(s): 金色黎明 (talk) 20:47, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I have added a lot of content following the format of other Featured Lists (Such asUnited States presidential elections in Arkansas, etc.), I believe this list has FL standards compliant 金色黎明 (talk) 20:47, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Comments by Newtothisedit

Initial observations

• Definitely need to mention to mention the states status as a swing state as from the 1990s to 2020, as Florida was far and away the most important swing state.
• The sentence on 2000 is good but I would mention the fact that it was a recount and that Gore won originally.
• Trump is listed as winning over 100% of the vote in 2020
  • Done 金色黎明 (talk) 01:50, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Support--Newtothisedit (talk) 03:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Comments by ChrisTheDude

• "Finally, John C. Breckinridge won the state" - are we still talking about 1860?
• Don't start sentences with "but" (occurs in a couple of places)
• "Florida voted for the Republican nominee in all three presidential elections during reconstruction era" =>" Florida voted for the Republican nominee in all three presidential elections during the reconstruction era"
• And on that note, what the heck is the "reconstruction era"? Is there an appropriate link?
• "shortly after the Reconstruction era" - there was no capital R before....?
• "Thus, prior to the 1952 presidential election, the Republican Party had only won Florida in the 1928 presidential election" - the preceding sentences don't make it clear (to me at least) why this would have occurred? Are you saying that blacks and poor whites vote Republican so the changes mentioned in the previous sentences reduced their support? If so, make that clear.
• It seems like suddenly after 1952 the state swung dramatically to supporting the Republicans. What changed?
• "In the 2000 presidential election, Associated Press" => "In the 2000 presidential election, the Associated Press"
• "first called Florida for Al Gore" - and his party was......?
• "later in the evening, AP reversed their call and giving it to Bush" - "and" doesn't make grammatical sense here
• Also, who was Bush? This is the first mention of him so we need his full name and a link
• "in the Bush v. Gore" - "the Bush v. Gore"? What is this?
• "which made George W. Bush won" - ah, there's the full name and link. Move them to the first mention of him
• also, the above doesn't make grammatical sense
• "Trump's home state" - first mention, so what's his full name?
• Not actually sure how any of the sentence starting "Trump's home state" is relevant to this article without more context
• "furthermore, it has been seen as a bellwether" - pretty sure I have never seen that last word before in my life. What does it mean? Is there an appropriate link?
• That's what I got on the lead, there's quite a lot of work to be done. I'll look at the rest later -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:05, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for your advice, I have altered the article according to you. 金色黎明 (talk) 08:46, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

• I made a bunch of little changes and now support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:35, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

More comments

• "And in the 1860 presidential election" - don't start a sentence with "and"
• "Due to the secession, Florida" - Easter egg link on Florida
• " participated the 1868 presidential election" => " participated in the 1868 presidential election"
• From our article, it looks like Reconstruction should have a capital R
• "called Florida for democratic nominee" - Democratic should have a capital D
• "Later in the evening, AP reversed their call and giving it" - doesn't make grammatical sense
• "republican nominee George W. Bush" - Republican should have a capital R
• "the Bush v. Gore on December 12" - still no explanation of what "the Bush v. Gore" was
• Need to link Donald Trump -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for your comments, I have corrected them and delete some unnecessary things. I have also edited the last paragraph. 金色黎明 (talk) 16:03, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Even more comments

• Rutherford B. Hayes should sort under H, not B
• "Lyndon B. Johnson should sort under J
• Alton B. Parker should sort under P
• Franklin D. Roosevelt should sort under R
• George H. W. Bush should sort under B
• ......and so on. Check the sorting on all the names -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:14, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

  I have checked and corrected all of the sortname template. And I notice that John St. John should sort under St. John but not John. 金色黎明 (talk) 16:55, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

• Quick comment– Not that I want to get too heavily involved in politics, but I think you have the wrong Democrat in 1972. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:18, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for the reminder, I've fixed this. 金色黎明 (talk) 01:53, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Support Comments from Kavyansh

Thanks for working on the list. I have worked and raised quite a few lists of this series to FL status, and would be happy to leave some comments in a due course -– Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 03:47, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• "The party's victory in that election was mainly due to its Democratic opponent Al Smith, who was a Catholic and opposed to Prohibition, which caused many members of the Southern Baptist Convention to switch to the Republican Party" — may require an inline attribution of the author.
• " the emergence of the Pinellas Republican Party began to shift Florida towards the Republican Party" — Is there a way to avoid this repetition of 'Republican Party'
• "In the 2000 presidential election, Bush led Gore by" — The reader has not yet been introduced to George W. Bush and Al Gore. Specify full names and link.
• "The Bush campaign team filed a lawsuit against Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the recounting of votes in certain counties violated the law. The case became known as Bush v. Gore." — This whole can be diluted as "In Bush v. Gore, the Bush campaign filed a lawsuit against Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the recounting of votes in certain counties violated the law (which law??)"
• " on December 12" — No need to be that specific. But if we are going to be specific with dates, better specify when was the lawsuit filed.
• "George W. Bush eventually" — Link and name him at his earlier instance
• Perhaps add a line that the margin of 537 votes was controversial; and we have never specified in the lead that election result was deadlocked due to Florida's recount.
• Can we combing footnotes [e] and [f]
• 'www.museumoffloridahistory.com' should really be 'Museum of Florida History'
• Same with 'edition.cnn.com', 'transition.fec.gov', and many more.
• Do we need to specify all that many authors in [2]
• Is 270toWin reliable?

A fine piece of work! Thanks a lot on continuing the series. Let me know if I can help on any of these lists in future! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:12, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion, I have improved them. 金色黎明 (talk) 09:22, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

• • Support – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 05:44, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Source review passed; promoting. --PresN 14:57, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

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