Posted on 03/12/2014 1:07:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"President Obama hosted a high-priced fundraiser Tuesday night as his party suffered a stinging loss in Florida's special election.
In his remarks, Obama did not address Republican David Jolly's narrow victory over Democrat Alex Sink for the late Rep. Bill Young's (R-Fla.) House seat. Instead, he touted that his administration provided health care for millions of Americans and that the growth of health care costs had slowed."...
There was a primary special election before this general special election.
Jolly won a three way race for the GOP nomination over two candidates including a retired military officer backed by Colonel Allen West.
Jolly campaigned as a “repeal and replace” Obamacare candidate in the vein of GOP House leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor.
Jolly also campaigned invoking the name of his former boss who he is replacing, the late Congressman Bill Young.
Jolly called himself a “Bill Young Conservative” in his ads.
In reporting on Jolly’s win tonight the “Washington Post” noted that Young was a “moderate known for steering federal dollars to the district”.
I know some libertarians and I simply cannot comprehend how they think they are lending assistance to their ideological interests by diluting the voter base of the most conservative candidate?
If I was a democrat candidate, I would donate to the libertarians!
With all the sugar Daddies in the jackass party, does anyone really think this contest was lost due to a lack of $1.2 million in extra spending?
Jolly/Sink
I just hope that Jolly has the intestinal fortitude to fight all the way every single attempt by the Dems to re-re-re-re-”count” ballots and not cave at the first 5-vote Dem lead.
Yes, once again the "libertarians" working hard to elect Democrats.
I wonder how many of these “libertarians” are in fact “free thinkers” hoping to cleanse the conservative wing of “religious fanatics.”
Sink conceded...
Highly doubt she will pull an Owl Gore....
——I wonder how many of these “libertarians” are in fact “free thinkers” hoping to cleanse the conservative wing of “religious fanatics.”-——
A lot...and lots of Paulbots....
“That’s how Sink was outspent $4.9 million to $3.7 million.”
Sink, a true communist to the bone (her husband ran for president on the communist ticket) got 46.7 percent of the vote. That’s WAY to close. November will not be an easy sweep. The district is probably bluer than Miami and still it took an extra million or so to pull of a win. Shameful. (Didn’t realize Allan West was in the running.)
Figures don't lie but liars figure. There is absolutely no way that Sink didn't outspend Jolly by 3 maybe 4 to 1. I don't live in that district but I do live in that media market. The DNC and DNCC and aligned groups poured bucket loads of money into that race.
Glad to see Bill Clinton is still the kiss of death to candidates he shills for.
The RAT strategy to run a third-party candidate that siphons votes away from the Republican didn’t work this time.
Wonder what that portends.
“There is absolutely no way that Sink didn’t outspend Jolly by 3 maybe 4 to 1.”
I thought there were laws forcing candidates to declare spending. Also, I’d guess independent groups could spend in her favor, but they have to declare who spent the money at the end of the piece. “Paid for by the XXX to elect Alex Sink.” I hope you’re right, but it would take breaking some laws to spend on this without filing the required tracking.
I can tell you this from direct knowledge. Bill Young’s opponent in the last election was a young uber-liberal woman named Urlich. She got 40% of the vote, which is the approximate zero baseline count for either party. A corpse will get 40% of the partisan vote. All elections are for the 11% in the middle. The Democratic party was backing Urlich, then Urlich got a call from the party “instructing” her to withdraw and throw their support behind Sink. The party had decided (correctly) that they wanted an experienced “name” on the ballot. They promised to back Urlich in another race at another time.
I had mutual friends and got the inside scoop.
The Libertarian pulled 5% and Sink still lost. The GOP-e better wake up, because this should have been more lopsided, and they probably know it.
In WA state, you HAVE to win by 3 percent or more because of the outright vote fraud and ballot box stuffing and disappearances here. There’s also the military vote suppression.
In WA, the libs ‘hit till they’re happy’ - recount until they win.
I would expect the same unbridled disregard for the rule of law this time around that we’ve come to expect from his Imperial Majesty Obama I.
Last week, Larry Sabato said that sink was up by 7% in the polls, that the district was trending demonRAT, and he predicted sink would win.
Politico said that the RNC was abandoning it's jolly demeanor and regretted his being in the race.
OPPPPSSSSS....
Good old Lefty Larry is dead wrong again.
Larry is a Dem party con and nothing more.
I recall this DNC push poll expert predicted W would lose in 2004 and stated bet on it.
Why this guy is not laughed out of the media tell us how much control the Dems party has over all the media push poll propaganda.
How about that phony PPP fraud poll showing Slunk by 3 pts!
Another Dem push poll / con artist.
That trial lawyer crook who strip mined a local bank during a merger did not even live in the district!Her mansion overlooks the Palma Ceia country club in South Tampa!
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