Comments on: New York’s Bizarro Congressional Election Results

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:22:53 +0000

Okay, I just looked up the bio’s of the two candidates in the race. I would say Tedisco’s is unimpressive. An expert in special ed. An athletic director of a high school. Union College degrees. The CV doesn’t mean everything, of course. (E.g., Ronald Reagan.)

Compare Murphy: Harvard, assistant to a governor, principal in a large investment firm. It looks like Dems recruited a quality candidate and Steele just got the one most available. I am not impressed with Steele.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:08:38 +0000

Are you kidding me? On the biggest issue dividing the parties, the $800 billion dollar stimulus bill – a bill opposed by every Republican member of the House and nearly every Republican member of the Senate – this man couldn’t make up his mind how he would vote?? I think he deserves to lose. If I were a Republican in his district, I honestly don’t know if I would have gone out on election day to vote for him, I would have been so upset. This is no big loss for Republicans if this man doesn’t prevail.

Okay, I get it, the northeast is pretty liberal. I used to live there. So you have to be pro-choice, pro-federal funding of stem cell research and such. But he doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude or the brains to explain to his constituents why this pork-laden budget buster should be opposed? Loser. Bad loser.

By: whyyeseyec

whyyeseyec — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:56:56 +0000

The recount(s) will go on and on and on until the dem candidate wins.

It seems as if every election everywhere in the country is split 50-50. Co-ink-e-dink or not?

By: William

William — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:44:36 +0000

Have the votes from the Cemetery District been counted yet?

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:18:09 +0000

Personally, I think the reason Tedisco and other Republicans don’t seem to hit on issues that should favor them is because the candidates themselves don’t favor those positions. Conservatives and libertarians have solid ideas for directing legislatures, but do not hold sufficient sway amongst Republicans. An important distinction is that while conservatives and libertarians are found in the Republican party, but not in the Democrat party, the GOP is a ‘right-leaning’ party only in comparison to the ‘left-leaning’ Democrat party. Republicans pick and choose from conservative/libertarian concepts to be elected. Paraphrasing Anne Coulter, Democrats and Republicans both run on conservative principles; Republicans sometimes disappoint their constituents, Democrats always do.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:47:22 +0000

Make that 62-38.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:45:18 +0000

I think the race being even close for the Republican is a pretty big story. Gillibrand (Dem) won that district 52-38 in November. 50-50 is a HUGE shift. If Tedisco really did run a lousy campaign, then it’s all the more significant.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:41:19 +0000

Well, Pops, I’d say it’s a matter of perspective. From the pictures I’ve seen, the Tea Parties don’t have small turnouts. They might not be huge, but they’re definitely not small. Or to put it another way, the turnouts for leftist rallies (anti-war, anti-AIG, pro-”stimulus,” what have you) in most places is absolutely miniscule in comparison, but that doesn’t keep those rallies from being one of the leading stories on most evening newscasts.

By: Dave (the rational Dave)

Dave (the rational Dave) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:55:30 +0000

With a partisan political hack like Holder running the DOJ, I doubt that the Dems feel any reluctance to pulling out all the election fraud stops on this one. They have gotten too good at getting the right judge to put a finger on the scale. It happened in Washington state a few years ago, it’s happening in the Minnesota Senate Race and will probably happen again in this race.

By: AThinkingPerson

AThinkingPerson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Where’s ACORN and their illegal voting methods when you need them? I’m sure they’re loading up their buses full of homeless and heading to New York just in case there’s a call for a do-over.