Bishop challenger on the attack

The Politico ^ | 12/28/2009 | Josh Kraushaar

[Outside da Box]

Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) barely managed to celebrate the holidays before being reminded he’s facing his toughest challenge since first elected in 2002.

Bishop’s Republican opponent, businessman Randy Altschuler, is already up with his first campaign ad – with over 10 months until the election. The ad, which begins airing today, ties Bishop to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the dysfunctional political culture in Albany.

“Tim Bishop is all about the old way: big government, more taxes, more spending,” Altschuler says in the ad. “My top priority is to create a pro-growth environment, lower taxes and more jobs."

[jimfree]

Sounds good. How vulnerable is the incumbent?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[campaignPete R-CT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_1st_congressional_district

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=ratings-house

NY#1 is in the second tier of the 72 DEM seats that CQ rates as currently in play. Should be our seat.

[campaignPete R-CT]

"I can see NY#1 from my house!"

[Clintonfatigued]

New York ping.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That ludicrously overrepresented 27D-2R delegation needs to be whittled down on the left side. At the least, we ought to have a 16D-13R delegation (and a play for some upstate seats that were GOP within recent memory, could make it 16R-13D).

Seats we have:

3 & 26

Seats we should have:

1, 2, 4, 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27 & 29

Seats we should also make a play for:

18 (GOP until 1989), 22 (competitive into the ‘90s), 28 (GOP until 1987)

[campaignPete R-CT]

Redistricting will bring it to 27 and is really an opportunity for the GOP as incombents get a modified district. The GOP is so cautious, it is sickening. The fact that Murphy-20 does not have an opponent yet is IN-EXCUSABLE.

Think of the opportunity, you run hard in 2010 .... if you lose the current #20 is split up ... you have a choice of running in several districts in 2012 by moving your residence. And the incumbent is new to much of the district.

The GOP is pathetic. And they claim to represent entreprenuers? Anyone can see this as an opportunity, not a disadvantage.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Contrast that with TN, where the GOP’s presence just forced out two Dem incumbents (including the Dean of the Delegation, Bart Gordon, a sitting House Committee Chairman), both of whom didn’t even want to fight for a last term before we inevitably take control of redistricting. Used to be a time (until the ‘70s) when the NY GOP, in firm control of the legislature, would gleefully merge Democrat Congressional districts together and aggressively protect their own turf. Now it’s just a sad embarrassment, like I told “GOPSterinMa”, it’s almost as if the party DOESN’T WANT TO WIN ! I think it’s time we get aggressive new leadership from top to bottom in the state and national parties, people committed to winning office, and not these imbecilic fossils currently holding the reins that are scared of their own shadows or are afraid of getting their Democrat friends upset. Either we’re an opposition party, or time to start another party that won’t function as a rump of the Democrats that has to ask them permission to go to the bathroom.

[GOPsterinMA]

AMEN!!!

Throw all of the “leadership” out!!! They are standing in the way of economic and cultural progress, robbing us of our freedom and our future in the process.

[Impy]

Hehehe.