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.
Weiner is going to find the Hacker on his own - he doesn’t need any help from the FBI or the Secret Service.
Maybe he can pick up some pointers from that other well known innocent bystander, OJ Simpson, a man who has spent every year of his life since 1994 looking for his wife’s real killer.
“. If Weiner stepped down from Congress, Republicans would have a realistic shot at putting it in play.”
Now THAT’S funny. When has a scandal or even real wrongdoing had a democrat step down? That action is only for Republicans.
I hope that NY Republican state senators insist on keeping together all of those Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods currently split between Nadler’s and Weiner’s districts—Nadler won’t mind getting an all-Manhattan district (although Maloney would be miffed), and Weiner would not have enough standing to complain. It is further proof of the unfairness and arbitrariness of the Voting Rights Act that (according to the prevailing interpretation) requires that NY draw a Hispanic-plurality district that squirrels through parts of Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn in order to allow Hispanic voters to “elect the candidate of their choice” but simultaneously permits NY purposely to split Orthodox Jewish communities (which have far more in common with each other both culturally and politically than do Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Argentines and Mexicans from three different boroughs) into two districts so tbat they are helpless minorities in both.