9/13/2011 Special Elections Live Thread

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[PapaBear3625]

AP is maintaining vote-count pages for both the NY special election and the Nevada special election for the US House

New York District 9, Weprin v Turner

Nevada District 2, Amodei v Marshall

[clintonh8r]

Well done!

[Republican Wildcat]

Gotta love it.

[sybilll]

I am so evil. I was in a heated discussion with a liberal about the Solyndra fiasco, and I purposely left it hanging, so I would go back and snark that I had been watching a NY Senate seat being taken by a Republican for the first time since 1923. Seriously, we are entering the take no prisoners zone for 2012.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

That is really cool. Are there family notes in it?

[rawhide]

U.S. House - District 9 - Special General
356 of 512 Precincts Reporting - 70%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Turner, Bob GOP 25,263 53%
Weprin, David Dem 22,703 47%
Hoeppner, Christopher SWP 120 0%

[God luvs America]

and especially the Jews in Brooklyn-9!!

[cc2k]

SamAdams76 wrote:

What is the HTML code you use to format that quote in? I'd like to use it myself in these threads.

It's a couple of tables (one inside the other) with background colors. To misquote Obi-wan Kenobi, “View the Source, Luke.”

Oh, and it looks like AP has called it for Turner now. I guess they are admitting it's now outside the margin of fraud.

[TonyInOhio]

If the trend continues, this will be no "narrow victory", but a crushing defeat that must be recognized as a repudiation of Obama and his Administration.

Remember Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania? His upset win over the widely-favored Dick Thornburgh (George H.W. Bush's Attorney General) in 1991 was the deathknell of Bush's reelection chances in 1992. Turner's win tonight assuredly sends the same message.

[jackal7163]

AP just called it

[PA Engineer]

To my fellow Jewish patriots in NY-9, “Mazel Tov” (Congratulations).

Ditto.

[Signalman]

I wonder what they’re saying over in DUmmyland. I would check but then I’d have to spray-bomb my computer with Lysol.

[OddLane]

Man, I wish I had stayed in Brooklyn tonight.

:/

[max americana]

REVENGE OF THE JEWS; DEM SEAT TURNS IN NYC

[God luvs America]

to busy picking apart the debate...actually i watch a bit around 11PM and they were trying to find the silver lining in their recent poll that gave zero a 43% JA rating with a 55% disapproval...it was hysterical....

[Antoninus]

Ruben Diaz Sr., a Dem. state senator, was making robo-calls for Turner based on Weprins vote in favor of gay marriage.

That is AWESOME. Proves yet again that gay "marriage" is a huge political loser. The Republicans need to use it.

[fhayek]

AP Just Called It for Turner.

Well, that is just like mustard on the ol' Weiner, so to speak.

[AFveteran]

According to AP vote tally website, Turner has been declared winner. FINALLY!!

[ResearchMonkey]

September 13, 2011 - 11:58PM ET

(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

U.S. House - District 9 - Special General

County	Precincts	David Weprin (Dem)	Bob Turner (GOP)	C. Hoeppner (SWP)
Total	356/512	22,703 47%	25,263 53%	120 0%
Brooklyn	78/170	3,155 31%	6,987 69%	17 0%
Queens	278/342	19,548 52%	18,276 48%	103 0%

[Dilbert San Diego]

Wow, this is incredible!

I don’t get MSNBC on my satellite package. I would love to know what they are saying about this! I can imagine they will have a meltdown!

I will have to check the folks at DU and Huffington Post and Daily Kos, see what they think of this.

[BillyBoy]

I'm surprised SWP candidate Chris Hoeppner is doing so poorly. Every poll had him at around 3-4%. Right now he's far below 1%. Even when you factor in liberals changing their mind at the last second and voting RAT because they don't want the Republican, usually any third party kook will get at around 2%. Nader went from polling 5% to getting 2.6% on election day. Hoeppner's gone from 3% to a statistical 0%. I find that fishy.

On an interesting note... not fishy but it shows you I know little about NYC politics and demographics.... the candidates are in a dead heat in the Queens part of the district, but in Brooklyn, Turner is crushing Weprin by a 69%-30% margin!!! I would have guessed the Queens part of the district would more GOP friendly than Brooklyn, and I could never imagine a Republican winning 2-to-1 in a RAT friendly Brooklyn CD. What kind of Brooklyn neighborhoods are in NY-9, I wonder? Most of Brooklyn is very safely RAT, moreso than Queens.