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Post by pjohns1873 on Mar 12, 2014 0:32:09 GMT
Apparently, the Republican candidate in a special election in Florida, David Jolly, has defeated his Democratic opponent, in something of an upset.
Here are the totals, with all 225 precints reporting:
David W. Jolly (REP) 88,294 (48.43%)
Alex Sink (DEM) 84,877 (46.56%)
Lucas Overby (LPF) 8,799 (4.83%)
WRITE-IN 325 (0.18%)
I say that Mr. Jolly "apparently" has won, since there are likely to be lawsuits. Or, even more probably, a "lost" ballot box may suddenly turn up with just enough votes to put the Democratic candidate over the top...
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Post by ShivaTD on Mar 12, 2014 9:24:55 GMT
Having a Republican elected in a Congressional district that has been held by Republicans for four decades doesn't come as much of a surprise. It actually would have been an upset for Sink to win the district.
One thing we know from the vote count is that Jolly can't march of to the House claiming that he has the support of the majority of the people in his district because he didn't win a majority of the vote. It is time for members of Congress to start representing all of the people in their district as opposed to only representing a minority of voters that managed to get them elected.
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Post by JP5 on Mar 16, 2014 3:23:28 GMT
I don't place that much emphasis on the win. It was a Special Election which traditionally doesn't get the turn-out of the general ones get. It IS typically been a Republican area.....however, it's interesting to note that Obama won the last two presidential elections there. I don't know if that was an Independent swing for the first black president or not....but chances are they wouldn't be too happy with his presidency since last fall. Since he put the bad news for Obamacare off until after the election......they didn't know then what they obviously know now. May very well swing back Republican.
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Post by ShivaTD on Mar 16, 2014 9:08:08 GMT
I don't place that much emphasis on the win. It was a Special Election which traditionally doesn't get the turn-out of the general ones get. It IS typically been a Republican area.....however, it's interesting to note that Obama won the last two presidential elections there. I don't know if that was an Independent swing for the first black president or not....but chances are they wouldn't be too happy with his presidency since last fall. Since he put the bad news for Obamacare off until after the election......they didn't know then what they obviously know now. May very well swing back Republican.
I pretty much agree with all of this but what scares me is that the next presidential election might be shaping up to the be the worst case of "lesser of two evils" for the American People we've ever experienced. Nothing could be worse for America than a choice between a Tea Party Republican and Hillary Clinton IMHO.
With that said I think the Republicans would be fools to nominate a Tea Party Republican and the Democrats would be fools to nominate Hillary Clinton.
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