Hillary “stiffs” Alex Sink, a battle of the polls and money — both big and small — keeps rolling in; it’s just another day in the Pinellas County 13th Congressional District race.
Here is the day that was in the special election in CD 13:
Hillary “stiffs” Sink — In an email from conservative PAC America Rising, the political committee, reported by the Miami Herald: “Today Hillary Clinton is making two stops in Florida, speaking to college students and at a healthcare summit. Yet for the second time since she left the State Department Clinton has stiffed a female Democratic contender who could use the help. Maybe Hillary’s team was made skittish by Sink’s offensive remarks about immigrants or the fact that she thought people working fewer hours because of Obamacare was an ‘exciting prospect.’”
Maybe she is busy with her own campaign … for 2016.
Riding the money train — Nothing says “marquee-race” more than $8 million spent on local TV spots, mostly on negative attack ads from outside groups. The Tampa Bay Times reported Sink and her supporters spent $4.6 million on messaging, while Republican Jolly and his supporters spent another $3.7 million. Libertarian Lucas Overby told 10 News he has not spent a dime on any TV time.
The true winners of the CD-13 race will be local TV stations.
Survey says! – On the heels of a SaintPetersBlog poll showing a five point lead with the more than 81,000 ballots already cast in the CD 13 race, Politico reports another poll, this time by Fabrizio, Lee and Associates for the pro-Jolly U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There, Jolly leads Sink 44 to 42 percent overall — well within the margin of error of +/- 4.9 percentage points. Sink and Jolly also tie among respondents definitely voting in the March 11 election.
In other words, it could do either way.
Sink cashes in — Sink announced today her campaign raised $1.3 million since the previous reporting period, nearly a million dollars cash on hand for the final weeks of the campaign and overall fundraising total to $2.5 million. Even more impressive was that there were more than 19,000 separate campaign donations, with 18,000 of them under $50.
I guess that is what they mean by “grassroots.”
