There’s no such thing as a normal election in Florida. But the 2022 contest has been weird, even by Sunshine State standards. It started at the top of the ticket, where a past governor who wants to be a future governor is challenging the present governor, who often seemed to be running for a different office entirely. The strangeness filtered down: We had some candidates who wouldn’t campaign, and many voters who aren’t voting.
And one unregistered, unwelcome player named Nicole, who could make a big difference in races that look close.
At the end of a long and tumultuous season, however, it’s important to recognize all the people who worked themselves close to exhaustion, and all those who treated this exercise in democracy with the respect, reverence and passion it deserves:
