Obamacare main reason for Sanford win in South Carolina

Bill Pascoe:

Compelling new evidence reveals that Congressman-Elect Mark Sanford won last week’s special election victory because voters who made their choice in the last week of the campaign broke overwhelmingly in his favor – and the number one reason they cited was the need to repeal ObamaCare.

The evidence comes in the form of a post-election survey fielded the day after the election by GEB International, an international survey research firm commissioned by Independent Women’s Voice, a 501(C)(4) organization that spent approximately $250,000 to help Sanford win. The poll surveyed 400 respondents who had cast ballots in last Tuesday’s special election in South Carolina’s First Congressional District, and has a margin of error of +/- 5 percent at the 95 percent confidence interval.

According to the GEB International survey, 15 percent of the voters in the special election – roughly one in seven – did not make up their minds until the last week of the campaign. Sanford won his surprisingly lopsided 54-45 percent victory over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch because these late-deciding voters broke 70-22 percent for him – an unheard-of feat for a scandal-tarred virtual incumbent. That +48 point advantage in the final week simply swamped Colbert Busch.

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An outside group carried the negative message on Colbert Busch.  Her refusal to support repeal of Obamacare was crucial to voters choosing Sanford.