A blue tsunami washed over America Tuesday. Yet Florida Republicans found just enough sandbags to safeguard their power in a state that now looks more like a political island than a peninsula.

The sandbags came in the form of a massive campaign-cash advantage and heavily padded voter-registration leads. Thanks to both, Republicans were able to eke out 51-49 wins.

The results reflected a serious underperformance. Republicans have 37% more registered voters in this state. So this was like a photo-finish victory in a 100-yard dash where one competitor had a 37-yard head start.

Still, the Republicans’ across-the-board victories in statewide races were enough to ensure the party still has total dominance here.

Most of America sent a clear message that it wanted checks and balances, Florida voters said: Nah, we’re good.

Most of America — even ruby red Texas — looked at the costs of living, the price of war and frequent cringe-inducing stories and said: We’ve bottomed-out. Florida said: We’re not done digging.

Basically, Florida decided to keep on Florida-ing.

That was the statewide story anyway. Locally, Central Florida rode and embraced the blue wave, which drowned the aspirations of virtually any candidate who had an “R” next to their name in Orange, Osceola or Seminole counties.

Yes, even Seminole — a county once so reliably red that everyone from Donald Trump to George W. Bush made the Sanford........

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