Posted on 03/11/2014 4:58:34 PM PDT by mandaladon
In Florida District 13's special election to replace the late Rep. Bill Young (R-FL), Young's former aide David Jolly leads the race with almost all votes counted. Jolly faced off against Democratic nominee Alex Sink, a former financial officer for the state of Florida, and Libertarian candidate Lucas Overby. With 98.2% reporting, Jolly holds 48.4% of the vote with 87,700 votes. Sink follows with 46.7% and 84,574 votes—and Overby at 4.8% and 8,765 votes.
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The Democrat, Alex Sink, had an advantage in that although neither candidate ran an especially good campaign, Jolly's was troubled by a divisive primary and persistent organizational weaknesses. Relying on the best GOP issue, Jolly and his allies focused their attacks on Obamacare, while Sink advocated fixing it and did her best to talk about anything and everything else.
In this context, Jolly's victory suggests that Obamacare will indeed be a millstone around the necks even of Democratic candidates who seek to avoid its adverse political impacts.
Can someone confirm if Rand Paul did Karl Rove robocalls against the libertarian candidate and for Jolly?
Has David’s opponent conceded? If not, chances are it will be contested and played.
Woot! Woot!
Media was projecting a Sink win. Although the seat was held by a Republican, Obama won the district twice.
The incumbent who died in office was the longest serving Republican in the delegation. The District is now a swing district and the Dems expected it to flip to D when the incumbent left office. This is a loss for them.
Can someone confirm if Rand Paul did Karl Rove robocalls against the libertarian candidate and for Jolly?
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He supposedly recorded one for the Jolly campaign. Based upon the Losertarian still getting about 5% of the vote, it wasn’t successful at all.
Expect the DemocRATS to ratchet up this tactic of encouraging (and financing) such candidates.
The Perot syndrome - a third candidate could sink our ship. It is also in the DNC playbook.
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Surely after the VA Governor’s Race, the GOP powers-that-be, should be ready to offset this some way, some how.
Ralph Nader took votes away from Al Gore in 2000... the Green/Reform Party ticket... :)
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Yeppers! Ralph Nader got 98,000 votes in Florida. Had he not run, we’d have had Al Gore for 8 years.
He’s (Brannon) no Stockman.
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Thanks be to God. That race showed that even some GOP Primary voters vote strictly on name I.D. alone. Surely, with all the warnings people were given about Stockman (Including many here on FR) no one, with any political savvy at all, would be stupid enough to think Stockman was anything other than a charlatan who just entered the Senate Race to raise campaign contributions to pay off his old campaign debts.
I have done calls for Brannon’s campaign.
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Careful on the calls. Here in the GOP Primary for Stockman’s replacement in the 36th Congressional District in Texas, there were numerous good Conservative Candidates. I picked one to vote for. But, 2 days before the Election, we were getting robo calls for him every 30 minutes. I was so pissed, I changed my vote. We have two good Conservatives in the run-off and he’s not one of them. So, apparently a lot of other people said: “ENOUGH ALREADY” and marked the ballot for someone who had a campaign strategy other than calling people during the dinner hour and up until 9:30 at night.
Your Post #41 is Excellent!
He (Rand Paul) supposedly recorded one (robo-call) for the Jolly campaign.
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Had this been a GOP Primary and I got a robo-call from Rand Paul, I wouldn’t vote for the candidate he is calling for. I mean, Rand dude has endorsed Mitch McConnell; that’s enough to make me suspect right there.
Thank you.
Thank you for the clarification. I stand corrected. Just glad the dems didn’t take it.
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