Posted on 04/23/2009 7:22:34 AM PDT by steve-b
Here are two more signs that Republicans are holding out little hope that Jim Tedisco will win the still-contested New York special election.
Democrat Scott Murphy currently leads Tedisco by 273 votes, with as many as 1,800 challenged absentee ballots left to be counted. A plurality of those ballots were cast by registered Democrats, making the math near-impossible for Tedisco to overcome his deficit.
To that end, GOP state senator Betty Little told the New York Observer that he should begin thinking about conceding the race. Little challenged Tedisco for the nomination, and is a possible candidate for the seat during the regularly-scheduled general election in 2010.
"I think he ought to do a good analysis of where he stands and what the possibilities of the outcome are; 273 votes, that's the biggest lead anybody's had in this race since it concluded," she said.
"You can't drag this one out as long as you can drag out a November election, you have to look to constituents not being represented at this point. And with the stimulus, and the economy, and the things that we need to get done, we need somebody there to start working."
And Dan Isaacs, a Manhattan attorney who is running for state party chairman, portrayed the race as a lost cause in an interview with the New York Daily News.
"We're not even the loyal opposition at this point. Tedisco appears not able to pull out a victory in an overwhelmingly Republican district; to me that's the final indignancy," Isaacs said.
Democrats keep electing Democrats and keep hoping for different results. No wonder Republicans are expecting Tedisco to lose.
The Republicans have shifted gears and moved into the loser mode.
Just another reason the GOP leadership should resign in disgrace.
Tedisco was their first serious chance to breach the demo stranglehold on regional offices and they blew it again.
I personnally can’t find 10 republicans that exhibit a set of balls. Can you? (palin doesn’t count)
I still don’t know how they blew it in such a heavily GOP district. (Saying “The Democrats cheated” begs the question of how they even got close enough for cheating to make a difference.)
They blew it or he blew it? I haven’t heard great things about him as a candidate and as a politician.
Mike Pence
Got a call from a Newt fund raising effort today. I basically said “Are you kidding!” “I haven't dunk the global warming or the Hillary health care Kool-aid yet.”
Who said it is a ‘heavily Republican district?’ It was recently held by a Democrat.
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