comment: >
  
  Here’s an idea:
  1. Don’t nominate a washed out has-been republican as your party’s representative for the governor’s race. 
  2. Actually spend money on ads and mailers.
context: From the story,
  
  More than two months after enduring humbling midterm losses, Democrats in Florida are in a state of disorder, with no clear leader, infrastructure, or consensus for rebuilding, according to interviews with more than a dozen organizers, former lawmakers, donors and other leaders.
  These factors have compounded their worries about Democrats outside Florida all but writing off the nation’s third most populous state, which was once seen as a marquee battleground. Democrats have struggled there in recent elections, hitting a new low last fall when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won a second term by nearly 20 points and carried majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade County, which a GOP gubernatorial nominee hadn’t done in 20 years. Republicans also secured a supermajority in the state legislature. >
  
  It mirrors an experience we feel in Texas. 2nd most populous and it feels increasingly hopeless to be competitive here even though Republicans are more brazenly corrupt. >
  
  Huge, highly concentrated in-state money plus oodles of out-of-state money destroy the confidence of the opposition's small donors. >
  
  Don’t forget the Gerrymandering. You don’t get a nice right wing stew without some ‘technically legal’ district manipulation in the mix. >
  
  That’s what’s happening in Ohio. It was once a “ swing” state. But Republicans have gerrymandered the hell out of the voting districts. >
  
  How would gerrymandering affect whether a state is a swing state? >
  
  gerrymander districts have the most extreme candidates, who can act without consequence. >
  
  Swing states refers to the presidential election. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with it.