[KQQL]

now now .......lol......Lazio might icome over your place and hit you with his paper work....I say it's tossup leaning towrds LAZIO......

Israel only got 49% of the vote in 2000......against a weak field..

[Torie]

Ya, true. But a Greenie got 5%. And Israel got high marks at politicsNY, whatever that means, which probably isn't much. Still, he has had two years to entrench himself, and is now the incumbent.

[Torie]

I must say that in my memory, I have never seen both parties work the pawns on the chessboard for control of the House with this intensity before to get the right nominees, and the right districts. It is no holds bared in most places, with lawsuits everywhere. Davis did some of this last time, but he was working under the radar screen, and it may have made the difference. In any event, both are in the game big time now.

And that is why it makes it so much fun to watch.

[Torie]

This from the NRCC is kind of fun to read. Of course, they call all the tossups for the GOP, bless them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Israel won because there were two right-leaning candidates. One was a black woman, and apparently that didn't go over too well with a number of people in the district, so the conservative vote was split.