Here’s the latest:
May 24, 2011 - 10:10PM ET (i) = incumbent = winner = runoff
U.S. House - District 26 - Special General
County Precincts
Total 520/627
Kathy Hochul (Dem) 41,731 48%
Jane Corwin (GOP) 37,122 43%
I. Murphy (Grn) 947 1%
J. Davis (TEA) 7,346 8%
TEA Party imposter throws election to Dems. That and MediScare..
This is Jack Kemp’s old stomping ground..
GoP needs to get its message honed to a fine cutting edge or call Bekins..
Screwheads!
Well, seems to me turnout was the main issue here.
In Nov Lee won this seat roughly 150k to 50k over the dem.
So, it looks like the dem is going to wind up with around the same 50k, maybe slightly less, than the party got in Novemeber.
But the GOP went from 150k for Lee to around 40k this time.
What happened to the other 110k who voted Republican just 6 months ago. If even 10% of them showed up we’d have held the seat.
The dems didn’t find any new voters. They just were able to motivate nearly all of the same ones who came out in the fall to come out again.
For some reason, the GOP couldn’t do the same. Only around 30% of those who voted last fall showed up.
I don’t know if they didn’t do a good job of GOTV, of publicizing the election, of keeping people informed, if the candidate was bad, etc... I didn’t reall follow this.
But it’s hard to understand how you go frm o150,000 to 40,000 in 6 months in a heavily GOP district that has delivered heavy GOP wins for quite some time,
Well, Ryan’s budget was a nice effort but it obviously has no chance now. Not that it did before. There weer never 60 votes in the Senate for it, and there were never going to be. So I never really got the big deal over it. It never had any chance of becoming law.
I guess the good news is that all of the 2012 candidates can now move on from it and not have to defend it. They can just say “look, it was a good plan, I still think it has a lot of positive elements. I think the medicare proposals obviously raised a lot of valid concerns and those will have to be addressed. I think there are still plenty of good ideas in it and it’s a good starting point but we need to figure out a way to do it that allays people’s concerns over medicare. I’m confident we can”
Thanks, Tea Party! You've just cost us another seat! Go Third Party! Yay! Preserve Democrat dominance for the next century! Woooo Hoooo!
YET AGAIN, a fake Democrat “Tea” PArty candidate costs us a seat.
YES FOLKS, people really are just that stupid, and they keep proving it, again, and again, and again.
That's what happens when you vote on principle rather than strategically.
Always remember, voting is not a matter of principle. It's a matter of defeating Democrats!
Well it looks like the token Tea Party guy gave the Democrat the seat!!! Is he a plant Democrat in Tea Party clothing?
keep it up folks....we'll get another 4 with the skinny dictator...
keep it up folks....we'll get another 4 with the skinny dictator...
Progressive stinkin Obama lovers are saying this is a sign of what 2012 will be like. They will run with this for 6 days in the news while Obama sells out Israel to terrorists and gives them an office in DC on our dime. How brain dead are the NY jewish democrat progressives?
you’d think Republicans would go out and recruit a “progressive” to run like Davis to split the vote.
No, looks like the Tea Party Candidate handed them an easy victory..
Looks like the fake Tea Party candidate took this one away from the Repuke up there. How stupid is it that we invented a “third party” that exists only to be appropriated by Demoviks like this. Why not a third party we actually control????
Split the vote, and the rat wins.