White House: Obamacare not ‘decisive factor’ in Florida special election

Published March 12, 2014 12:00am ET



White House press secretary Jay Carney insisted Wednesday that Obamacare was “not the decisive factor” in a deflating Tuesday special election loss for Democrats in Florida.

“This was a safe Republican seat for decades,” Carney said of GOP lobbyist David Jolly besting former Florida chief financial officer Alex Sink in the Tampa–area House race.

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