Talk:Politics of Florida

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What a mess

This article is a disaster. It begins with a single sentence lede "Politics of Florida tends to revolve around budgeting and how money for budgets should be raised" which restricts content to something other than the actual topic. The rest of the content are basically Libertarian talking points, referenced slyly to editorials (not news stories), many by a single right wing columnist at the Florida Today newspaper. Really would be better being redirected back to Government of Florida.T L Miles (talk) 19:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With the confusion of "Politics" "Elections" and "Government" in the American public mind, it is best to have three separate articles for each state. The main problem is to force "elections" into an "Elections" article. Americans think "elections", where they go to the polls, are "politics", because they are told this by television.

You have to start someplace. A few people have actually sat down and written entire articles from scratch on various subjects. I have written several dozen, but they were on limited subjects. This is far from limited. Unlike Government and Elections articles, the editor really has no idea where the article is going until editors add to it. The history of politics in a state is usually not well understood. Wikipedia may be changing this. Student7 (talk) 20:28, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As feared, the stub article has now disappeared entirely. No place to even add new material as it becomes apparent to an editor. We need material here that is unique to Florida: "stand-your-ground", education statutes that are unique (I don't think we're in Common Core anymore), water monopoly by government (statute), etc. Student7 (talk) 00:14, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know what should be included in politics articles. Perhaps you (or someone else) can re-add appropriate stub material? Int21h (talk) 02:57, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Returned relevant material, but to stub status

I've returned the article as a stub. Removed constitutional amendments which seems to correctly belong in "Government" article. Assigned "stub" status. This is written "on the fly." It shouldn't have to come up to top standards until we get more coherent material. But neither should it be deleted. Other states have "Politics" articles. So should Florida. Student7 (talk) 22:30, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Probably should have a subsection on "History" detailing slavery, break from the federal government. Jim Crow afterwards until the mid 1960s. Student7 (talk) 22:34, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]