I think there is a VERY good chance to pick up that Florida US House seat Tuesday.

[RBInMaine]

And if we do, we must learn that in 2014 if we can do it there, we can do it in other purple areas too. This 2014 cycle must be the mid term year that we BLAST AWAY HARD at the TeaPubs and show no quarter.

I have donated to the Alex Sink campaign several times now with small donations. Every little bit helps. If you can donate anything at all, please help. There is also online phone banking available. Just go to the website.

The RePUKE candidate is a corporate toady K-Street lobbyist who left his wife for a much younger woman. Gee, TeaPublican family values on display again.

Sink appears to be running as strong a campaign as possible.

[leanforward]

1. one seat at a time

Here's hoping, from just another small donor.

[NBachers]

2. And another small donor

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Their candidate is trash

POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt reports on the GOP’s frustrations with Republican David Jolly's messy campaign operation in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, ahead of the special election next Tuesday: “Over the past week, a half-dozen Washington Republicans have described Jolly’s campaign against Democrat Alex Sink as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capital and the poor optics of a just-divorced, 41-year-old candidate accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend 14 years his junior. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity. … It is rare for party officials to criticize one of their own candidates, even anonymously, days before an election. One explanation may be so they can point to Jolly — as opposed to the national political mood or the ineffectiveness of attacks against Sink over her support for Obamacare — if he loses.” http://goo.gl/sCp5v0

http://www.politico.com/morningscore/

[RBInMaine]

4. Yes, I saw this. If she wins, the Dems will SLAM the R's HARD on the ineffective ObamaCare attacks.

And it will be a lesson how to counter those attacks. This is an important race. It was a seat held by a Republican for MANY years. The Koch Brothers and Karl Rove have stepped in with many negative ads having spent millions, so it will be a real blow to them too.

Cmon Alex Sink, YOU CAN DO IT.

Please make a small donation. This is a VERY important election for many reasons. Don't let the Koch Brothers buy this seat.

[Chestrockwell]

5. I'm working on Sink's campaign

It's been much like the Obama vs Romney. The republicans think the most yard signs and robocalls is the key to winning an election. We have a grassroots "get out and vote"campaign that should be applied to all districts, even republican ones. When someone sees us at there door asking for there vote it such a huge difference and shows how important they are. I've had several people who didn't even know about the special election that are now going to vote after they got all the information. The people who run this are the reason Sink will win and why Obama won Florida. Just be clear, Sink RAN ON OBAMA CARE; she didn't run away from it and i'm proud of her for that. For me, this is a warm-up for the real prize: Rick "Dick head" Scott.

[RBInMaine]

6. Thanks. Yes, this is how we will beat them there, in my state, and other places too.

I have been following the campaign as best as I can online (the campaign website, the facebook page, news stories, etc.).

Outside groups for both sides have spent a lot of money, but especially on Jolly's side from what I have seen. Can't beat them
just with money since Citizens United. Got to beat them with a better message and with a much better grassroots campaign.

I think Sink knows very well that it's a purple district so has run as pretty much as a moderate with her message of "Let's fix broken Washington, work together across the aisle to solve problems, and I am the one who can best do that." She has taken that moderate message with her position on ObamaCare: Keep what is good about it and fix what is wrong with it. THAT is a WINNING message in a swing district.

At the same time, it seems her campaign has done a good job painting Jolly not as the kind of moderate that really fits this purple district, but as a right winger tea party type whose views are TOO far to the right, that he is a corporate lobbyist who is part of what is wrong with Washington, AND that his lobbyist positions have been too pro-corporate and out of alignment with the values of the people there, such as being willing to privatize Social Security, etc.

In addition, it seems like the Jolly campaign has been disjointed, and him leaving his wife and hobnobbing around with his much younger girlfriend hasn't helped.

It looks like you guys are working the ground and the doors very hard with much more face to face campaigning and with more volunteers and motivation. YOU EVEN HAD BOWZER from SHA NA NA.

The Libertarian, it seems, is also pulling a bit more from Jolly than from Sink.

Your goal MUST be, as you say, to MAXIMIZE TURNOUT because that is the thorn in the side of Democrats. They tend to sit out elections like this. Need to get them off their rearends, make sure they understand the stakes, and get the hell to the polls. Looks like you all are working hard to do that. If you are successful, and I think you will be, this campaign will be a real MODEL for the rest of the country and for your state as you work to get rid of that rotten TeaBagger you have for a governor.

We are pulling together the same thing up here in Maine. Just had our local party caucuses last weekend, and we had HUGE turnout for a non presidential year because we have a CRAZY TEABAGGER governor just like you that we MUST get rid of and Democrats can not wait to hit the streets. We are going to work to maximize our turnout, expand the map, and bang on every door in the state. We are going to take the TeaPublicans to the woodshed.

GOOD LUCK.

[RBInMaine]

13. How's it looking on the ground today? Best wishes. I have made several small donations.

[Chestrockwell]

14. Looking good!

Just knocked on about 40 houses. Very positive day, even got a "not going to vote" to a will vote. I use Rick Scott to scare everyone into voting. As long as they vote right!?!

[Sunlei]

7. you have very good points. Can you please, post to me the official link to donate?

I'm not from Florida but I hate the way RW extremists have controlled that state (corrupt!) forever.

[RBInMaine]

8. Please just Google"Alex Sink For Congress" and hit the"donate" button. It is done through ACT Blue.

[Sunlei]

9. republicans have put up scam donation websites on google. Rs are scammers as we all know by now.

I found the official website and donated a little through there. http://www.alexforcongress.com/

If you link to your 'grass roots' ACT blue group local I'll send you hard workers some pizza or lunch good luck!!

[Sunlei]

10. ps I like the way they take paypal :)

good luck! kick their corrupt republican asses out of Florida!

[RBInMaine]

12. THANKS !!

[RBInMaine]

11. Yes, but just read the websites carefully and we can see which are the fakes and which are not. You

got it right. THANKS