Florida is Testing Ground for Midterm Strategies

First Read: “While it’s important never to overstate the importance of a single
special congressional election, tomorrow’s race in Florida will tell us a
lot about the power of the Republican Party’s health-care attacks on
Democrats could have in 2014.”

Washington Post: “The Tampa Bay peninsula will serve as the first real test of 2014 voter moods on Tuesday in a down-to-the-wire congressional race that each side is using to hone its messages for November. Republicans, returning to their 2010 and 2012 model, are trying to turn Democrat Alex Sink into a clone of President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), focusing heavily on Obama’s health-care law. Democrats, for the first time since the law’s bungled rollout last fall, are fighting back with a defense of the law that accuses Republican David Jolly of wanting to repeal the Affordable Care Act and ‘take us back’ to the era when preexisting conditions could lead to a denial of health insurance.”