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In Politics, Florida’s Division Represents National Turmoil
ResumeWho could forget the infamous presidential election of 2000 and Florida’s outsized role in a race that changed the course of American history?
Fourteen years later, the political climate in Florida is still just as divisive. Major elections are still often decided by a hair’s breadth.
Why has Florida become so split and how did it come to represent the nature of national politics today?
Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson and Peter O'Dowd investigate.
This segment aired on October 9, 2014.