Democrats picked up four seats in Florida in 2012 by claiming both "new" seats from reapportionment and defeating two GOP incumbents who lost for reasons other than redistricting. The delegation morphed from a 19-6 GOP edge to a narrower 17-10 GOP edge, but Democrats are hungry for more in 2014, hoping courts will overturn what they see as an unlawful GOP gerrymander and that attorney Gwen Graham, former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham's daughter, will unseat sophomore GOP Rep. Steve Southerland in the Tallahassee area. However, the current chances of courts imposing major revisions to the lines look dim, and the most vulnerable incumbents in the state appear to be freshman Democratic Reps. Patrick Murphy (FL-18) and Joe Garcia (FL-26), not Southerland.Florida has gained congressional districts after every census since 1930, when it elected just four House members. Following the 2010 census, Florida gained two seats to go from 25 to 27, leaving it with a delegation the same size as New York’s. Scott’s narrow victory and big Republican margins in the legislature after 2010 meant that Republicans, as in 2001,
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