FL-Sen: Bill Nelson coasting

[Nhoj]

Somewhat off-topic, but can someone explain to me why Collier County (Naples) is so Republican?  Even Harris won the county.

Lots of retired rich olds who aren't Jewish, few minorities, and not as many tourism/service industry employees. A lot like The Villages or Charlotte County.

Its about 26% Hispanic actually.

[Nhoj]

I don't think there are many Cubans in that area, it's not very connected to the Miami despite geography due to all the swampland between it. The Hispanics are probably mostly sugar cane farm workers or picking oranges. However true to form this doesn't equal high turnout. Check out this precinct:

Population: 23684
VAP: 15687
73.6% Hispanic VAP (11539 Hispanics)

Vote:
Obama 1620
McCain 803

Granted the precinct is also about 20% black and less than 5% white and has less white VAP than McCain votes, so a lot of those Hispanics obviously were voting McCain, so there probably are some Cubans with the Obama vote being mostly black. However it's clear that most of the Hispanics aren't voting.

Yeah there aren't, I checked data from 2000 right after I posted and it was mostly mexicans with cubans in second which is why I edited my post about 5mins after posting it .