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This 5 page paper discusses Florida, its first congressional district, its senior senator and the representative from the first district. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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5 pages (~225 words per page)

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on the Internet understands that the state is generally considered a Republican stronghold. This paper will examine it more systematically, answering questions about a specific district, and about the state itself and one of its senators. Discussion Florida has 25 Congressional districts. Were just going to pick the one at the top of the list, which is available at Project Vote Smart. In Congressional District 1, the Representative is Jeff Miller, a Republican. The two senators are Bill Nelson, Democrat and Mel Martinez, Republican (U.S. Congress members of Florida, 2006). Mr. Nelson is the senior senator and Mr. Martinez the junior; well discuss Nelson when we get to the senate. We have a lot of questions to consider, some simple, some which require additional research beyond that provided by Vote Smart. Our first consideration is the political history of Senator Bill Nelson and of Florida; then well tackle the history of the 1st Congressional District and Jeff Miller. Senator Nelson was first elected to the Senate in 2000 and has just won re-election (Senator Bill Nelson, 2006). Prior to that he was Insurance Commissioner, and a Democratic Congressman (Florida state profile, 2006). His roots are in Florida and his campaign crossed party lines to pull a large number of Republican voters (Florida state profile, 2006). Florida itself is "closely divided between the parties and politically volatile" although the trend statewide since the 1990s has been toward the Republicans (Florida state profile, 2006). They won the "state House in 1994, the state Senate in 1996, and the governorship in 1998 and now hold all the statewide offices and have big majorities in the legislature--26-14 in the Senate, 84-36 in the House" (Florida state profile, 2006). As noted below, they have more than a 2:1 advantage in Congress; in addition, they have ...

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