Lisa Krantz Photography

Florida: A Swing State

Florida was called a battleground state leading up to the 2004 Presidential election. It's populations range from large Cuban and Haitian communities to retirees from both midwestern and northeastern states to baby boomers in the suburbs, making up it's diversity both in population and in voting styles.

Doris Bier warms up during a water aerobics class in the Delray Villas Retirement Community in Delray Beach, FL. The group of democrats is worried about health care, the economy and their grandchildren going to war.
  
Haitian Jude Cesaire provides music as the congregation sings together during a revival service at the Haitian Baptist Church of the Living God in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL.
  
As night falls, a boy climbs a tree on Ft. Lauderdale Beach during a Boy Scout barbeque.
     
  
NAACP member Paulette Darow works outside Joe's Market to help people to register to vote or apply for the reinstatement of their civil rights in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL.
  
Retiree Hulon Lawson checks out the new electronic voting machines at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office in West Palm Beach.
  
Retirees from Connecticut register to vote in Florida at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office.
     
  
A young girl laughs as she plays with her brother outside their grandmother's home in Tampa, FL. The neighborhood sits on the edge of Ybor City, one of Tampa's popular tourist areas.
  
Old and young alike work out and live together in South Beach, Miami.
  
A family fishes together as night falls on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.
     
  
Anele Febles checks her phone and swings to the music outside Hoy como Ayer, a Cuban club in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. The Cuban vote leans republican but some in the younger generation resent the government's restrictions on travel to their home country.
   
Celima Blanc, left, and Segilia Novelus stand with the congregation during a revival service at the Haitian Baptist Church of the Living God in Miami, FL.
  
A street where families from several different countries live in the Lemon Bay neighborhood of Miami, FL comes alive at dusk.
     
  
Friends spend a Friday afternoon outside a subsidized housing complex in Tampa, FL.
  
NAACP member Paulette Darow hugs a man who is overcome with emotion as he describes how he is not allowed to vote because he was convicted of a felony more than 10 years ago in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL.
  
Water, warmth and beautiful sunsets are some of the reasons retirees make their final move to South Florida.