Looking at the map and 08 numbers it seems the GOP is at least competitive (if not favored) in Howard and Hamilton Beach portions of Queens, doesn't get completely killed in Lindenwood, does well in the white portions of the Rockaways (Irish cops?), and in Brooklyn cleans up Borough Park, Manhattan Terrace, Gravesend, Ocean Parkway, Marine Park, Bergin Beach, Mill Basin, and Gerritsen. It's also competitive in Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, white parts of Little Odessa and Coney Island.
Hopefully someone good can run and put this seat in play. With Weiner's weiner troubles and Obama's foreign policy dumbness, now's the time.
Vote for Pee Wee Weiner. A Weiner in every e-mail. A vote for Pee Wee is a vote for Weiner.
I would be shocked if the weak GOP apparatus in NY state could flip this seat. They are incompetent. Hot Dog boy could attack a bus full of nuns and get reelected there.
When Weiner said “I know how the game is played” in his heated interview I could have sworn that soundbite came directly from Chicago or the White House.
That inflation better not go to their heads.
That district hasnt voted for a Republican congressman since 1921:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York’s_9th_congressional_district
And Obama's domestic policy disaster.
The story writes itself.
For those who are wondering about how this could play out if he just hangs swinging in the wind, I assure you it will have no affect on his reelection chances. Yes Bob Turner did a great job of holding wiener under 60 (59%)BUT that was before the redistricting lines that will make his district even more Democrat. Currently his district goes into Gerritsen Beach where he probably got about 12% of the vote (Blue collar Irish and Italian - cops firemen and construction workers). Because of a single New York State Senate race won by the Republicans, the GOP has a 1/3 seat at the table for redistricting. Weiner will be demanding that the Gerritsen Beach Republicans be drown in a Queens Democrat district AND the upper Bay Ridge Republicans be assigned to Michael Grimm’s district in Staten Island which fits very well since the Democrats KNOW it was only Vitaliano’s zipper problems that give the seat to a Democrat in 2008. If weiner is forced to resign another Democrat will hold the seat. If weiner’s picture actually showed his weiner it would make no difference to the brain dead Democrats in his district so all over this is going nowhere except putting him on defense because when you are explaining, you AINT winning!
The voters there need to vote for someone not quite as ‘hard left’.
Few are talking about the possibility that Republicans could pick up Weiner’s seat.”
Does Bawney Fwank know about his seat being picked up?
If Weiner had come out right away and said, “Yeah, I did it, I sent that pic. So What!”, he would be done with it. But now that he’s changed his story a few times and refuses to answer any more questions, he tied himself up into knots and he’s becoming damaged goods.
Anthony, it’s not the crime that will destroy you, it’s the coverup. Remember Nixon?
Somehow, I don't think this headline is doing the pubs any favors. ;-)
Weiner was a future liberal hopeful for Mayor of NYC.
Weiner Blew It!!!!
The farther a Democrat gets away from morality, decency and responsibility the more likely they are to be re-elected.
“Hopefully someone good can run and put this seat in play.”
Not a chance! Weiner will commit erection fraud and win! Just a “head’s up!”
You have GOT to be kidding us. But then...a body can hope a bit, right? For change?
Stiff competition?
Weiner is experiencing shrinkage (cue George Costanza).
NY-26 in reverse.
Watch the Libs cry and whine!
Really?
Thought it was a Weiner surge.