Florida! Florida! Florida!: Presidential Elections and the Sunshine State

Name: Florida! Florida! Florida!: Presidential Elections and the Sunshine State
Start: 2024-11-04T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Smathers Library

Schedule

Mon Nov 04 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Smathers Library | Gainesville, FL

Where: Judaica Suite, Smathers Library Building
On election night 2000, NBC News political reporter Tim Russert was asked on air about the key to winning the election. He wrote his response on a whiteboard: “FLORIDA! FLORIDA! FLORIDA!” Russert’s words could have applied to many past presidential elections as well. This exhibit explores the way Florida has and continues to shape the outcome of presidential elections.

Boyd Murphree, Political Papers Archivist for Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries, will talk about Florida’s role in some of the nation’s presidential primaries and general elections from 1876 to 2016 and present images illustrating those elections from UF’s large and diverse holdings of presidential election documents, publications, and artifacts.