[lowbridge]

That district hasnt voted for a Republican congressman since 1921:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York’s_9th_congressional_district

[BillyBoy]

1) Make sure Weinie runs for re-election. 2) Run a decent right-of-center Republican with history of winning elections and appealing to independents. 3) Find a conservative in the district to file as the "Green Party" candidate and run to Weiner's left on a platform of gay marriage, industrial hemp, Libya withdrawl, creation of a Palestinian state, etc. Make sure to use their official logo with the sunflower plant stuff and get photo-ops wih the CodePink crowd and so on.

The far-left DailyKos nuts will crawl out of the woodwork and show up in droves to vote for the third party candidate instead of the "neo-con zionist". A Republican could win with as little as 34% of the vote with the RAT vote split between perverted Weinie and fake Green Party candidate. Revenge for NY-26. Wonder if the RATs will still think they have a mandate on "medicare"?

[fieldmarshaldj]

1920, quite so. However, when tracing back CD histories, especially in NY, the district numbers have all changed over the years (since there once was over 40 districts). The current district was then the 10th (in the 1920s until the ‘40s). There has actually only been just 4 people to occupy that district since 1922 when the last Republican incumbent, Lester Volk, was defeated. Emanuel Celler (from 1923-1973), Elizabeth Holtzman (who beat Celler in the ‘72 primary) (1973-1981) who lose to Al D’Amato for the Senate in ‘80, Chuckie Schumer from 1981-99 (who beat D’Amato), and Weiner since 1999.