I thought this was a lean dem district.
“I thought this was a lean dem district.”
The district includes St. Petersburg, which is an artsy retirement city trying to be like Sarasota. Still for a flat out communist like Sink to get 46 percent is scary.
Yes, the last poll I saw had the Democrat candidate up by 9%.
Florida District 13 was “reassigned” to Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) in 2013, according to Wikipedia.
Previously, according to Wiki, District 13 included a number of more rural counties clustered around Sarasota just to the south.
So, I'm not sure we can make comparisons to previous elections.
Also, the Libertarian candidate got 5% of the vote.
That sounds huge to me, since nationally the Libbers only get around 1%.
That 5% number also sounds like a noisy rejection of the GOP candidate, too, but that's my opinion, no data to back it up.
Pinellas County is 76% white.
In 2012, 61% of white Florida voters voted for Romney.
At first glance, it looks like about 60% of white Pinellas County voters voted for the GOP candidate.
NOT a “lean Democrat” district. Obamacare was on the ballot, remember? And NOBODY is indifferent on that monstrosity.