Alex Sink - DEM - 62,978 - 48.61%

David W. Jolly - REP - 59,950 - 46.27%

Politico shows a larger number of votes in on the other thread, so I'm looking at that one now, where it seems Jolly has a small lead on that one.

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maybe the early votes havent been counted.

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97% in. Jolly still up by 3K.
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Just 4 precincts left to report.

Unless 10% unreported are blue precincts.

I can't believe this shit.

That's pretty bad.

This district hasn't gone Democratic since the 1970's. This was Katherine Harris' old district. It's pretty solidly Blue - so while a 2% difference is still a loss no matter how you slice it, Sink made a good show.

It suggests that we're going to be highly competitive in a lot of razor thin districts.

And this would be a less than 7% conservative margin if the libertarian candidates votes are added. So in a "historically Republican" district, what have the margins of victory been in recent years? Was Sink's showing an improvement, or about the same? Looking for some sort of a positive reflection, although any way you slice it it's difficult given the final tally.