Polls close at 9 p.m. ET in New York and 10 p.m. ET in Nevada. PPP surveyed the latter race in just the past few days and predicts a double-digit win for Republican Mark Amodei. McCain barely won the district three years ago but thanks in part to a breezy 33/59 approval rating for Obama, this is now a walkover for the GOP.The suspense is in New York. In one corner: Republican Bob Turner, who leads by six points in not one but two recent polls. That’s encouraging, as is the fact that the White House is already pre-spinning an expected defeat, but that margin is by no means a guarantee of victory in a special election. In the other corner: A guy who received a kiss-of-death endorsement this morning from Anthony Weiner; who can’t vote for himself today because he doesn’t live in the district — and has no plans to relocate if he wins; and whose secret weapon on the trail appears to be Bowser from Sha Na Na.
I think if the presidential election were held today 0bama would lose NV. We’ll see how things go in 14 months though.
The NY 9 statistics are interesting. I read that Gore got 67% of the vote there but 0bama took it with only 55. I wonder if redistricting in 2000 took out some Democrat voters. I see it also has a black population of only 4% so this might help Turner.
In any case a GOP victory here tonight would be huge. We’ll see how the Dems and the media downplay it.
Doesn't live in the district? How the hell do New Yorkers put up with that ?
Just leading by 6%...the dems steal elections with only a 6% lead.
“who can’t vote for himself today because he doesn’t live in the district — and has no plans to relocate if he wins”
What?
N.Y must have some strange, I mean REALLY strange law to allow that!