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UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 03:35 PM Nov 2013

GOP at risk of losing Bill Young’s seat

Republicans are openly worried they could lose a Florida congressional seat that the party has held since before Richard Nixon was president — and give Democrats early bragging rights in their long-shot bid to win the House next year.
Republicans have controlled the St. Petersburg-area 13th District for more than four decades until former GOP Rep. Bill Young’s death last month. But the district is very much in play — President Barack Obama carried it in 2008 and 2012 — and the party believes it has an ideal candidate to capitalize on its moderate strain in former state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/gop-bill-young-seat-99353.html#ixzz2jnl0BMY6

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GOP at risk of losing Bill Young’s seat (Original Post) UCmeNdc Nov 2013 OP

Best of luck to Alex! Tarheel_Dem Nov 2013 #1

Alex Sink is a much stronger candidate than anyone the GOP has. HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #2

Tarheel_Dem

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1. Best of luck to Alex!

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 04:21 PM

Nov 2013

HooptieWagon

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2. Alex Sink is a much stronger candidate than anyone the GOP has.

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 04:21 PM

Nov 2013

Not to knock Ms Ehrlich, the other Dem candidate, but she's still an unknown despite running against Young last year. She hasn't done much since to get known. Alex Sink will run away with this. The district is ever so slightly red...south St Pete, which is 90% Dem, was carved out of the district and moved into Kathy Caster's district to gerrymander the 13th for Young. Still, the district voted for Obama twice, and I think will vote for Sink.

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