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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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Editor's note: Campaign Trail is a weekly Wednesday column offering news and analysis on the 2014 Midterm Elections and 2016 Presidential Election.

In a big blow to national Democrats going into the 2014 midterms, Republican David Jolly, a 41-year-old lobbyist, narrowly defeated Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday in a special election to fill Florida's Congressional District 13.

In a district that President Barack Obama carried in 2012, Jolly won with 48.4 percent of the vote to Sink's 46.5 percent. Lucas Overby, a Libertarian third-party candidate, took 4.8 percent of the vote.

For Democrats, the race was a testing ground to show that they can effectively navigate through Republican criticisms on Obamacare and still emerge victorious. Alex Sink, the 65-year-old former Florida chief financial officer, was the perfect candidate for the swing district. She is a well-known and well-respected political moderate who narrowly lost the Florida governor's race in 2010 to incumbent Rick Scott.

But President Obama's low poll numbers, coupled with Sink's support for Obamacare pushed Jolly to victory. “Dems should not try to spin this loss,” Democratic Strategist Paul Begala wrote on Twitter. “We have to redouble our efforts for 2014. Too much at stake.#noexcuses.”
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