woman. other issues are definitely in play. health care, it is profoundly reengineered politics as we know it. if you re the koch brothers, your fund-raising is going to be so much easier now, everyone thinks you have the silver bullet, you can take it to obama like you never could. in mid-term election, far different than 16, far different than 12, in mid-term elections, voters are older, wiser, more conservative, they re going to be impacted by the affordable care act less, unless it s negative. you say it was a mistake to put the affordable care act on the screen and maybe it was. what do you say in november when you re a democrat and your opponent comes out and says you
about flight 370. malaysian officials say they tracked the plane as it changed course and now they re denying that story. we begin in florida. i don t know how can you not deny this doesn t have national implications. the anti-obamacare congressional candidate has won a key special election. the race has been viewed as a test case for the mid term psych toll come. david jolly narrowly defeated alex sink, even as a libertarian candidate ate away some of his lead. the clear water area is a swing district. as the new york city framed it, the law is a significant blow to morale. miss sink is a well-known party
not have found a worst candidate. an experienced centrist candidate, well funded, support from national figures. it s a good law, we need to fix it, are democrats now going to feel obligated to be more emphatically opposed to obamacare. and come in with a unified message, that s going to embolden donors in these races. sometimes you don t know what your message is. that s when candidate, that s when campaigns, that s when outside groups make fools of themselves. we run their ads and we laugh because it s so discordant and disconnected from where the people are. in this case it s not hard to coordinate your outside messages if everybody s against obamacare. and in this district, mark,
specifically there was one thing that really may have ended up hurting the democrats add the democratic candidates and it s something democrats in louisiana and arkansas across america are going to have to be concerned about. it s something reporters don t talk a lot about. it s a part of medicare, very popular in that district, but voters all around the country, the kind that vote in mid-term election, older voters who rely on their medicare, in that district it was a huge issue. the republican national committee s highlighting it. democrats are going to have to really be worried about this part of obamacare in a lot of these places, these voters vote, they voted in this case and clearly helped jolly. we re going to have this election all over again in eight months. this was a special election. the question is does alex sink run again or is she done?
this is $9 million of outside spending versus about three and change of candidate spending. this really was a local race. if you read the press, there was no discussion of the local issues in that district. this was all about obamacare and medicare advantage and things look that. what are the takeaway lessons if you re a national democrat or national republican, what do you do come november? i think this is no doubt this was an extremely disparaging blow to national democrats, no doubt. but if i can play the contrarian here for a little bit, i did some reporting on this and talked to a republican consultant working on the race who told me the obamacare issues moved the base on both sides. it was critically important forgetting republicans to the polls to vote for jolly and getting democrats to vote for sink. however, what moved people in the middle was this notion that alex sink was a bad manager, she