Ok, Ose looks good, his chances I mean, Ose himself looks like a bowl of cold oatmeal compared to Igor Birman. A record number of ballot are being challenged though, rats will try to “adjust” the totals.
Still very worried about McSally and Johnny T.
DeMaio is screwed, amid news that Peters campaign colluded with his “victim”. What a SHOCKER!
Mark Assini is also very likely to be screwed. That would be a hell of a sweet win. 39% Romney, 2 points worse than the seat that elected Kakto by 20 points (Dan Maffei commit a murder I don’t know about?). Did Astorino carry both districts?
Astorino definitely carried Slaughter’s NY-25 (which, as you noted, gave Romney only 39.4% in 2012), since Astorino carried Monroe County bt 48.2% to 46.7% and the NY-25 includes only Rochester and its closer-in suburbs (thus excluding the most Republican parta of Monroe County.
As for Maffei’s NY-24 (where Romney got 41,1%), I believe that Cuomo must have carried it by a little over 1,000 votes. The NY-24 includes all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne Counties and part of Oswego County, and Cuomo carried Onondaga (Syracuse by such a large margin(15,030 votes as per Dave Leip) that Astorino wasn’t able to make up for it in the other counties . If the portions of Oswego County in the NY-24 voted exactly like the county as a whole, then Cuomo carried the CD by almost exactly 1,000 votes, but since the NY-24 portion of Oswego County includes the Democrat-voting City of Oswego, Cuomo’s margin must have been a bit over 1,000 votes in the CD.
Associated Press projected Scott Peters won a second term. Dirty pool by a former DeMaio staffer who may have stolen office supplies sunk him. As for the harassment charges themselves, I don’t know what to believe.
As for that Massachusetts race, if John Tierney had been the nominee, Richard Tisei would be headed for Congress. Seth Moulton was a far more difficult target. A working-class Iraq War combat veteran who graduated from Harvard while working for the railroad, he cut a non-political image and was a Teflon candidate. Tisei was caught off guard by his primary victory and never regained his footing.