Wiener is cooked.................
Posted on 09/10/2013 7:29:56 AM PDT by proxy_user
The New York City elections are always difficult. This year, they had to bring back the old voting machines they thought they had gotten rid of, so they would be ready in case there was a runoff on October 1st. The machines are old and ornery.
At my polling place, there are four districts, each with its own registration table and voting machines. But 95% of the voters are from district 1, so one table works frantically and there is a huge line, while the other three tables and machines are almost completely idle.
So the district 1 line is huge, and there are all kinds of problems. The Democrat ballot has dozens of races no one has heard of, making most of the voters take a long time.
Then a Republican-registered voter gets to the machine, and she wants to vote for the Democrat candidates. There is a huge argument that lasts ten minutes while the poll workers attempt to explain primary election law to her.
The next voter manages to completely screw up the voting machine by pulling levers in the wrong sequence. There is another long delay while the poll workers attempt to fix it and make sure his vote registered properly.
Finally, I gert in. There is only one contest on the GOP side. One flip, one swing of the lever, and I'm done.
The poll workers are really very nice and follow the law, but they are stuck with a system that insures they will be dealing with one problem after another.
Today: The voters abandon Weiner. Tomorrow: His wife does.
Forget Weiner. De Blasio is polling 40%, Thompson 25%, Quinn 18%. Nobody else is in it.
Yup, Weiner is done!
When I lived in NYC my apt building had its own polling place. Hard for a ‘hick’ to even contemplate.
Weiner is steamed.
Will Weiner start a write-in campaign?
Detroit Here we Come!
Wiener is cooked.................
I was talking to some Dems in the line, and a number of them would pick Lhota over De Blasio. The voters aren’t as dumb as you think.
Nah, he’s just working on his come-back campaign...
And Huma will be right beside him.
Voting in NYC is revolting. Usually the floor is littered with absentee ballots and registration cards that have accidentally fallen out of those big books from the Year 1. Embarrassing, really.
I hope you’re right. Not that Lhota is any constitutional conservative, but at least he isn’t proposing crap like mandatory paid sick days, single payer NYC health insurance for all NYrs, or I’m married to another chick so vote for me.
I fear that with this election NYC, where I was born and went to school, and worked for many years..will finally pay the ultimate price.
FYI..here’s a superb piece from Red State about the Democrat candidates:
No way anyone other than a Democrat wins this time..alas
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