This post was published to Critical Blackness at 6:19:38 AM 3/12/2014
The FL-13th a perfect storm of messaging, demographic, and money – though according to the Huffington Post it appears outside R groups closed much of the spending advantage on TV – seems to have come down to the two percent advantage of Rs over Ds in the registered voter pool.
This was long considered a test case for the President’s ObamaCare messaging, and a bellwether for what Ds can expect going forward in 2014. The GOP ran a guy who hated ObamaCare, in a district that had 25% of its population over 65. It should have been a win for Ds. Close, but a win for Ds.