DAVID JOLLY BEATS ALEX SINK IN FLA 13 RACE

Supervisor of Elections ^ | 03/11/14 | Supervisor of Elections Pinellas

[shortstop]

Just came over the Pinellas County Election website- David Jolly wins!

225 of 225 Precincts Reporting

Percent Votes

David W. Jolly (REP) 48.43% 88,294

Alex Sink (DEM) 46.56% 84,877

Lucas Overby (LPF) 4.83% 8,799

WRITE-IN 0.18% 325

182,295

[dontreadthis]

since when are tea partiers also lobbyists?

[mwl8787]

Sink never voted for obamacare. This means its negative potency extends to all RATS, even in open seats.

This will also help dem donors to close their wallets for 2014 and energize GOP money.

This is GREAT news

[Palmetto Patriot]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/03/republican_jolly_wins_fla_congressional_race

[Kenny]

Sink had a lot of negative advertising

Accused Jolly of killing Social Security & Medicare. Didn't Democrats try these scare tactics before?

[tstarr]

I live in the district and voted for Jolly, but I don’t view him as a tea party candidate at all. He’s much like Bill Young was - he’ll vote the right way most of the time, but he’s going to be pushing to bring back the pork instead of trimming the budget. He’ll vote to trim around the edges, but I don’t believe he’s going to be aggressive in that regard as a true tea party candidate would be. Certainly much better than Sink would be.

[tioga]

Dollars to donuts they find some missing ballots they FORGOT to count

Of course, now they know how many votes to fake it's a done deal.

[kabar]

Jolly was backed by Young’s family and while he was outspent two-to-one by Sink’s campaign, a flood of nearly $5 million in outside money evened the playing field in a race in which nearly $12 million was spent, including $9 million of outside special interest money.

[Popman]

I did say he was a tea party “type” candidate...

I do know the GOPe wasn’t happy he was running instead of the people they wanted, who declined....

That tells me volumes....

[JSDude1]

I have no idea (and I VERY much understand your ‘little faith’ in elected Republicans), but let’s give him a chance.

[rwfromkansas]

She had tons of time to prep, whereas we went through a primary fight first after Sink had already started doing attack ads etc.

[Red in Blue PA]

Thanks. I feel better knowing she conceded.

[dontreadthis]

well, he sure owes one to Jeb, who came in at the last minute to support him. So, when it comes to votes regarding say “common core” (which Jeb is pushing), we know where his vote will go. One small example.
Sorry, no smiley face.
In fact, I’m not willing to trust, and I will verify.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The cBS affiliate in Tampa, skipped over the Congressional election results that they have running at the bottom of the screen.

[Retired Chemist]

Been hearing lots od ads over the last few days that Jolly wants to end Social Security and Medicare. That’s what Democrats do all the time in Florida.

[shortstop]

The moving van ought to be pulling up to Sink’s apartment in Feather Sound to move her back to Hillsborough County about 9 AM tomorrow morning. Good riddance.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

WTF is the LPF?

Liberal Pretty F*cked-up?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

One would think the Florida Assembly could have voted to delay the special election until the general election.

You're right! They could have just re-written the State Constitution! /S

[DAC21]

“We’ll have to see how it’s played tomorrow in the MSM... but my guess is they’ll downplay the election”

Probably to the tune of WHAT ELECTION?

[FreeReign]

So what does this say about polls? They’ve consistently had Sink ahead by 7 to 9 pts. I’m thinking the polls are part of the propaganda “Bandwagon” technique, to make everyone think it’s a done deal and they should join the crowd.

Yup.

[Impy]

Chill out, ain’t gonna be no recount.