[BillyBoy]

Well, the article was discussing the possibility of Weiner stepping down from Congress so there would be a special election for the district. It sounds to me like NY-9 is a bit like IL-5 (Rostencowski's former district) in that it's been RAT controlled for decades and normally votes RAT by default, but is less RAT that all the nearby city districts because they basically made it the city's "white seat" to create more black and Hispanic districts.

Whether Weiner is on the ballot or not, I expect the RATs would run a Jewish candidate (or at least an pro-Isreal candidate) because of the large Jewish population of the district. Given how much of the Dem's activist base is vocally anti-Jewish, running a pro-Palestinian & "all troops out of the middle east" candidate would probably cause a sizable split in the Democrat vote. I agree with post #30, we could pull a NY-26 in reverse if we started to recruit fake third party left-wing candidates now. That district has always been GOP vs. Dem races, they've had a vocal Green/Socialist/Communist Party candidate playing a factor. The idea of running someone on the "Anthony Weiner Party" line on the ballot is hilarious as well. We won HI-1 when the Democrat vote was split between two candidates, we could certainly do the same in NY-9.

[Clintonfatigued]

Your senario would be a good one and I hope that Republicans would be wise enough to lure a third-party leftist into the race. Former NYC Councilman Noach Dear would be a good candidate in such a case. I can’t think of any other Republicans who could win.