I just realized that three weeks ago we were only 12,000 votes away from yet another freaking liberal Democrat Murphy beating a Republican in an evenly divided district: http://www.electmarkmurphy.com/
The NY-11 (Staten Island and Bensonhurst) appears to have been narrowly carried by Obama in 2012 despite voting narrowly (under the new lines) for McCain in 2008—I think it was one of only three CDs in the nation that swung from McCain to Obama (two of the three Hispanic CDs in South Florida were the other two). I’m sure that Hurricane Sandy was the main reason: turnout in Staten Island was atrociously low, and I guess more Republicans stayed home. Had Mark Murphy beaten Mike Grimm, it would have been almost as painful of a loss as Patrick Murphy beating Allen West in FL-18.
We need a 28th Amendment: No Democrat Murphys in Congress.
I knew that race was close, I didn’t realize the rat was named Murphy. Ugh.
Damn hurricane. Why is mother nature a democrat? Does she believe that climate change BS? Stupid bint.
The only Republican who seems to be able to make hurricanes work for him politically is.....Jeb Bush.