Also a bellweather on Obamacare. Jolly is for repeal, Sink is for “fixing it’.
Even though Bill Young held that seat for 1000 years I thought it was lost. Pinellas County had appeared to go to the dark side going for Zero twice. Jolly was the Young family’s handpicked candidate although if I lived there I would have voted for his primary opponent.
However, Sink is a carpetbagger; she used to live in Hillsborough County and moved to Pinellas solely to run for this seat...people don’t like that. She’s a shrill and unattractive woman besides, for those who are shallow.
But mostly I hope it was, as you point out, an anti-Obamacare bellweather. I’m sure this result has the Dims shaking in their boots because by all appearances the seat was Sink’s.