Talk:2016 United States presidential election in Florida

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Reference named "ncsbelist":

From United States presidential election in North Carolina, 2016: NC State Board of Elections presidential primary candidates' list (preliminary)
From United States presidential election in South Carolina, 2016: "STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS : CANDIDATE LIST GROUPED BY CONTEST" (PDF). Alt.ncsbe.gov. Retrieved 2016-01-17. S

Reference named "WRALcandidates":

From United States presidential election in South Carolina, 2016: Binker, Mark (2016-01-05). "NC approves 27 candidates for presidential primary ballots". WRAL.com. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
From United States presidential election in North Carolina, 2016: WRAL: NC approves 27 candidates for presidential primary ballots

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Orphaned references in United States presidential election in Florida, 2016

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Reference named "realclearpolitics.com":

From Republican Party presidential debates and forums, 2016: "RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination". Real Clear Politics.
From Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2016: Scott Conroy (October 23, 2014) In Iowa, Mike Huckabee Is Making Moves RealClearPolitics.
From Donald Trump: Kudlow, Lawrence; Moore, Stephen (August 26, 2015). "Donald Trump: A 21st Century Protectionist Herbert Hoover". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
From Ben Carson presidential campaign, 2016: "2016 Presidential Race". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
From Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016: "Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary".
From Democratic Party presidential debates and forums, 2016: "2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved March 6, 2016.

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The Analysis section is filled with NOR flags

Although it's essentially entirely verifiable facts, (about the margin of victory, voting history of Florida etc.) so those flags need to be removed Beetlejuicex3 (talk) 18:24, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The flags need to stay until a third party expert source is cited with a footnote and attributed by name in the body text to support the statements. What makes it original research is the choice to cherry pick particular statistics or superlatives out of an infinite number of factoids that could be chosen for any election. These factoids should be chosen by third party experts, not Wikipedia editors. This is a kind of WP:SYNTH and WP:FRANKIE.

Anybody can make up any set of criteria to highlight: how many "Democratic"^[opinion] counties went "Republican"^[opinion]. How many "Obama counties" flipped to Trump. How many counties that begin with R had between a 3 and 7.1 point margin for either candidate. Best performance by a left handed Democrat since 1874 excluding blondes. See how arbitrary that can be?

Yes, there is significant conventional wisdom saying "Florida was a toss-up" or that 7 out of the last 10 elections show that Florida is "Republican leaning". But since there IS significant conventional wisdom to back up those opinions, then it ought to be very easy to cite all of it. And if no editor can cite a source for it, it should be deleted. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:49, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

it seems like some editor had this vandalized with a lie for some time

It read that the "socialism liberation party" was the same "green" and it read, "(july XX)". why? that had be wrong. that same editor (nutcracker100) has on their, mostly anonymous and uninformative, mishmash user page "theyre against communism" (and yet for eco-politics and paris agreement), and many other unrelated things put together. it smelling like sabotage. or insinuating about relations (that, far as i know) are not there between that and this party. why was it like this so long??????? clearly vandalized. Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 18:31, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]