9/13/2011 Special Elections Live Thread

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[spokeshave]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

And the ululations of their girly-men

Que pic of 0bambi riding a girls bike with a bed-pan on his head.

[God luvs America]

what i’m thinking is how gaga they went over a rat winning a slightly conservative district in upstate NY, the one where the guy emailed a picture of his chest to some chick then stepped down- and how the criminal liberal media spin at the time was the anti-Paul Ryan message would carry the rats back to house leadership in 2012 based on that result....

[MindBender26]

Mazel Tov

[Palmetto Patriot]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Conan!

[fhayek]

The important thing is the devastating and unspinnable blow that Obama and the Dems will take.

They will try to say that concerns over the European debt crisis led to Turner's victory...

[katiedidit1]

oy vey...I am so verklempt:)

[Antoninus]

If gay marriage can’t win in Chuck Schumer’s old district why do some GOP bosses insist the party must support it?

Worse, why won't these election master-minds like Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt use it as a wedge issue? They're always telling us we need to work harder for "minority" votes. Well, here's an issue that is tailor made to convince Black and Hispanic voters to abandon the Democrat bandwagon and these idiots won't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Wasn’t sticking it out what ultimately did him in?

[Starboard]

Great post. Her next stop — report to the DNC!

[MindBender26]

55% in. Up 6%. You are right.

[sushiman]

I’m a former New Yorker who has been living in Japan for 25 years . Totally unaware of current demographics in Brooklyn these days . Could you explain how a Repub can win 70% there ?

[Yossarian]

At current trends, if voting percentages stay equal per borough, and each precinct has equal votes...

...Turner wins 55.6% to 44.4% (a 11.2 point spread).

(According to my spreadsheet.)

Three quarters of Queens has reported in, but Brooklyn still has over 60% of its blockbuster anti-Obama vote left to come in!

If these trends keep up, this will be twice as bad as the surprise upset polls from last week predicted!

Take THAT, Zero!

[Antoninus]

That was a reference to Weprin’s speech in favor of the gay marriage bill that passed, which NOM used to round up opposition to Weprin among not just Orthodox Jews, but Hispanic voters...

Bingo. NOM is a force. If you want to send your campaign donations to a group that will really make a difference, send it to NOM.

[Mom MD]

Don’t forget the tsunami and the hurricane!

[nd76]

Dean Heller was the congressman for all of Nevada north and west of Las Vegas (2nd CD). He was appointed to the US Senate vacancy created by the resignation of John Ensign. This election fills this seat left vacant by Heller’s elevation to the Senate. The GOP candidate and apparent congressman-elect is Mark Amodei, a former state senator who was term-limited after 2010. Apparently he is a well liked guy throughout Nevada.

[God luvs America]

weprin will probably go limp after tonight....

[Parley Baer]

“AP not ready to call race yet. Too many ‘problems’ with reporting of results... Developing”

Yep, according to AP there are too many Republican votes coming in. There must be a problem.

[NautiNurse]

U.S. House - District 9 - Special General

County	Precincts	David Weprin (Dem)	Bob Turner (GOP)	C. Hoeppner (SWP)
Total	329/512	21,031 47%	23,865 53%	112 0%
Brooklyn	73/170	2,873 30%	6,537 69%	17 0%
Queens	256/342	18,158 51%	17,328 49%	95 0%

[Palmetto Patriot]

AP Just Called It for Turner.

[Darnright]

When I just looked there are a tad over 35% of the results in with Amodei well in the lead 57.38% to Democrat Kate Marshall’s 37.09%.