Nearly 8.4 million Florida voters cast ballots in the 2012 general election, a record number that pushed voter turnout over 70 percent and may have changed forever both parties' strategies for getting out the vote.
An unprecedented amount of early voting characterized by long lines, and a Democratic push for absentees brought in more than half the number of ballots cast for the entire election before Election Day.
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you ... you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand
President Barack Obama has won the most expensive political race in U.S. history.
The 2012 Election was over for Republican Mitt Romney the minute virtually all news networks called pivotal swing-state Ohio for Obama.
The former governor of Massachusetts had just lost Wisconsin, Paul Ryan's home state, a state Republicans hoped Ryan would deliver when Romney selected him as his running mate.
In a decisive rebuke to the constitutional agenda of the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature, voters have rejected all but three of the 11 amendments put before them on the general election ballot.
Amendments 2, 9, and 11 passed the required 60 percent threshold of voter support. They each extend homestead exemptions to special classes of persons: respectively, wounded veterans, surviving spouses of servicemen and first responders killed in the line of duty, and low-income seniors.
The rest did not even pass with a simple majority. They were:
