{"id":53623,"date":"2016-10-27T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53623"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:19:41","slug":"heres-why-florida-is-by-far-the-most-important-swing-state-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53623","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why Florida is by far the most important battleground state in 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Florida takes the top 2 spots in adverting markets<br \/>\nnationwide and 3 total in the &#8216;Top 10&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Whoever wins Florida, will win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;Longtime Independent Political Analyst<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53623\">SOTN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The adverting market breakdown for the current election season which follows was taken from an NBC article that is probably accurate, though you never know with mainstream media reporting.<\/p>\n<p>It dovetails perfectly with SOTN&#8217;s armchair analysis about the key swing states in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s 29 electoral votes are always a HUGE factor for any presidential election going back many decades. \u00a0And 2016 is not only no different; the final result of the upcoming election is quite likely to be decided there.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has been spending extraordinary amounts of time in his home state with campaign events scattered around the entire state of Florida. \u00a0His meet-ups are in cities big and small, and even in some small locales, because he knows just how consequential the final tally from Florida is bound to be.<\/p>\n<p>The above-referenced excerpt follows below the line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53623\">State of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Top 10 Advertising Markets<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Here are the top overall advertising markets to date in the 2016 presidential race, with Florida &#8211; once again &#8211; dominating the top-two spots.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL: $30,459,727<\/li>\n<li>Tampa-St Petersburg-Sarasota, FL: $24,776,502<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas, NV: $18,933,507<\/li>\n<li>Cleveland-Akron, OH: $18,635,260<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte, NC: $15,664,148<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia, PA: $14,944,506<\/li>\n<li>Boston, MA: $12,438,797<\/li>\n<li>Columbus, OH: $12,231,232<\/li>\n<li>West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL: $10,754,939<\/li>\n<li>Denver, CO: $9,734,811<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/first-read\/hacked-memo-reinforces-worst-perception-clintons-n673806\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/first-read\/hacked-memo-reinforces-worst-perception-clintons-n673806<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida takes the top 2 spots in adverting markets nationwide and 3 total in the &#8216;Top 10&#8217; &#8220;Whoever wins Florida, will win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election&#8221; &#8212;Longtime Independent Political Analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}