I don’t think Bush had much to do with Jolly’s win - mostly it was a rejection of obamacare, and the democrats didn’t have an opportunity to “count the votes” ...
I also hear Jolly was outspent 3-1, that’s considerable.
“and the democrats didn’t have an opportunity to “count the votes” ?
Reference Colonel Allen West’s loss as well as Al Frankens win in Minnesota!
We watch mostly Tampa TV stations here in Central Florida and this race featured a LOT of ads around the clock. Only remember seeing Jeb Bush a couple of times.
Sink's ads tried to portray Jolly as a Washington Insider Lobbyist who was only for big business and against the "little man and seniors." Typical Demonrat scare tactics aimed at LIV and seniors.
Sink, "I have a history of bringing Democrats and Republicans together and I'll do the same in Washington to protect social security and medicare." "Jolly wants to privatize social security using risky investments and cut medicare."
Jolly did a smart counter ad appearinug with his Mom and another older relative to assure seniors that was not the case. And hammered home that Obamacare, which Sink wanted to keep and "fix" the parts of it that weren't working, had raided medicare of $716 billion dollars.
Late in the campaign, which polls showed Sink being up by almost double digits, Sink's ads got more and more desperate as she had been cast as being the representative of Pelosi and Obama rather than a representative of the people of the 13th District. Her own ads had professed support for Obamacare as if it just needed a little tweaking to make its wonderful awesomeness come to fruition through her bipartisan experience of bringing folks together through "common sense."
Note: this "common sense" phrase was also used by Charlie Crist in some of his interviews espousing his views for the good of all things Democrat Governor's campaign.
Be interesting to see if this "common sense" phrase is the latest DemonRat, focus-group-tested talking point.