Note to any presidential contender: Don’t even come to Florida unless you understand wet foot/dry foot policy.

Second note: If reporters try to help you out by explaining the policy, take them up on it.

Florida’s new Republican senator is blocking the appointment of an Obama nominee as ambassador to Brazil because of the nominee’s stand on Cuba, despite the pleas of nine former secretaries of state, and threats to a $7.5 billion contract to build Boeing planes in Seattle.