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Title: NY special election a measure of Obama's strength
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2011 ... n_el_ho/us_ny_special_election
Published: Sep 13, 2011
Author: Beth Fouhy
Post Date: 2011-09-13 20:43:22 by Sebastian
Keywords: None
Views: 9461
Comments: 26
Democrat David Weprin faced an unusually tight race against Republican Bob Turner in a special election Tuesday in New York's heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District, where voters unhappy with President Barack Obama could elect a Republican for the first time. The contest to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner has become too close to call, with public opinion polling showing a slight edge for Turner, a retired media executive with no previous political experience. Both candidates hit the streets Tuesday, meeting voters and trying to boost turnout, the key in most special elections. Weprin had a full public schedule of get-out-the-vote events, while Turner's only scheduled public appearances were his vote Tuesday morning and an after-the-vote party at a restaurant. His campaign said he would be out in the district all day drumming up support. Panicked at the prospect of an embarrassing loss, Democrats have poured cash into the race and sent in their stars to try to save Weprin, a state lawmaker who has been forced to defend Obama's economic policies even as he tries to stress his own independence and close ties to the community. Republicans are working to frame the race as a referendum on Obama, even though turnout is usually low in a special congressional election. "It wasn't planned that way, but this is the only nationally contested election on the federal level, so it is, in a way, a referendum on President Obama's policies," Turner said Tuesday. (Nevada also has a House election Tuesday after a shake-up that started with Republican Sen. John Ensign's resignation amid a sex scandal. Republican voters are trouncing their Democratic counterparts at the polls in a GOP-leaning district that has never elected a Democrat.) On Monday, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor argued that a Turner victory would be an "unprecedented win" and the latest evidence of voter dissatisfaction with Obama. "That district is not unlike the rest of the country. People are very unhappy with the economy tight now, and, frankly, I would say unhappy with the lack of leadership on the part of this White House," Cantor, of Virginia, told reporters in the Capitol. Back in the district that spans parts of Queens and Brooklyn, Turner campaigned with Rudolph Giuliani, the popular former New York City Republican mayor. There are also six special elections for vacant state Assembly seats and several local races on the ballot around the state. Weprin campaigned at a senior center Tuesday and greeted voters at a subway stop with Democrats including U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler. With a large population of Catholic and Orthodox Jewish residents, the 9th Congressional District is broadly blue collar and more conservative than many others in the city. It's the kind of white, working-class environment that Obama struggled with in his 2008 campaign even as he was easily winning most other traditional Democratic constituencies. A Siena Poll released Friday showed Turner leading Weprin among likely voters, with a 50 to 44 percent margin. The same poll found just 43 percent of voters approving of Obama's job performance, while 54 percent said they disapproved. The president fared much worse among independents. Just 29 percent said they approved of his job performance, while 68 percent disapproved. On Tuesday, Weprin said the polished Democratic machinery would get people to the polls. "We have a lot of people with us, and I think we are going to pull out the votes," he said. "I think the polls are not going to reflect who's going to come out to vote." Hoping to shift the momentum in the final days, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has invested more than $500,000 in ads in New York's pricey television market. An independent Democratic group, the House Majority PAC, is running ads, too. And Obama for America, part of the Democratic National Committee that support the president's re-election, is urging volunteers to rally behind Weprin. The party also has enlisted two of its biggest guns, former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to record phone calls for Weprin. And Democrats are relying on organized labor and other affiliated groups to bring voters to the polls. "When voters learn the real difference between David Weprin and Bob Turner, they'll vote their Democratic values," DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said. Weprin has tried to cast Turner as hostile to popular entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. It's a formula that worked for another Democrat, Kathy Hochul, who won a heavily Republican upstate New York district in a special election last May by vowing to protect those programs. But Weprin, an orthodox Jew, has been on the defensive on gay marriage and Israel, which could peel away some support from the Orthodox community. He voted in favor of same-sex nuptials in the New York Assembly, and some Jewish voters have threatened to withhold support for Weprin because they disapprove of Obama's policies toward the Jewish state. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, endorsed Turner. "Rightly or wrongly, it is (part of the race)," Turner said Tuesday. "This president has been less friendly than any other president in recent history, and I think today voters can hold him to account for it." The House seat opened up in June when Weiner was pushed by party leaders to resign after sending sexually provocative tweets and text messages to women he met online.
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#1. To: Sebastian (#0)
Looks like Obamunist's bitch is getting bitch slapped. The tard detrius here might be in a screeching frenzy in the am.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
What happened folks. Your commie lost the seat Schumer and Feraro or however you spell that bitches name. Wait til 12. It will be a democrat bloodbath from which they may never recover. You know Obama is going to lose don't you? There will be a treason trial. You know that right? When the Republicans take over the people who gave aid and comfort to the baby murderers are going to be came after. You know that right? Revenge is going to be so sweet.
I can't wait to read how the resident liberals spin the loss of a seat held by Democrats since the 1920's.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
The talking piece of goat shit Schumer used to have that seat. Americans hate Obama. Real Americans that is.
I think its hilarious Blabber Mouth Schultz-Wasserman is blaming orthodox JEWS lmao. She's a God Send for the GOP. btw, fun noting which of our resident idiots claimed Weiner wouldn't be forced out in the 1st place.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Her mother should have had one of those abortions that liberals love so much. People who support abortion should be sent to Kevorkian instead of a Social Security check. That would solve two problems.
Had Weiner not self-imploded he'd have been re-elected easily next year. This was a referendum on a pervert not a POTUS. Given the ass kickings in sepcial elections and recalls that the GOP has gotten over the past year - and will get in Ohio this Fall...it's truly moronic to believe this was a referendum on Obama...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Did he ever. But then, “It’s a very difficult district for Democrats,” said Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, noting its Democratic margins there tend to be the second lowest of all the districts in New York City( despite being under Democrat control since 1923).
That's the demographic...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Sure it was. Everybody loves Øbama.
Again...Weiner would have been re-elected had he not self-imploded...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
You deleted a thread of mine? Why? There was nothing out of the ordinary for this site in it...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
I'm laughing my ass off at how you LOSERS are trying to spin this.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
The only spin is coming from the GOP. HAD Weiner not self imploded he's relected...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
HA HA HA LOSER
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
That is an unprovable assertion. But then, facts rarely support your statements.
New York is going to lose two congressional seats due to redistricting. Anyone care to guess what one of the lost districts will be?
__________________________________________________________________________________________ The entire country is laughing at the spin this morning. By tomorrow, the amusement will turn to disgust, because it demonstrates just how completely out of touch, and just how arrogant the administration and the DNC truly are. Honestly, the GOP should pay a crew to follow blabbermouth Schultz around every day at this point. Whoever picked this bimbo to lead the House Dem reelection efforts...wow. I should send that person a thank you card lmao
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
So what? It's a very probable assertion. But then, facts rarely support your statements. You taking debating lessons from Boofer? I challenge that statement.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
But then, facts rarely support your statements. You've got to be kidding.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
Why? What was the topic and what was it about? Stoner needs to get his goat-smelling-ass to his job site.
Why? There was nothing out of the ordinary for this site in it... At first I just changed the title. Then someone went posting a pic of someone here so I deleted it all.
Why did you change the title? It was 100% accurate. He was screaming about his business going Titsup while posting on the internet all day. As for the picture...just delete it was you routinely do to other posts...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Boofer at GBR claiming that his business was nearing TitsUp status again. He and his wife and a "friend" are nearly out of a job. Hilarious that my business employs more people than his does...I have 6 and if we get just one more client for our new product we'll need 10...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
btw, when exactly did you lose control of your site? Just wondering as I watch the loons run amok today....
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Weiner would have been re-elected had he not gotten less votes... I see you copied the dwarf drivel....I'm happy to have trashed that evil floorlicking brownshirt commie so I don't have a regular diet of this type of idiocy. the ungarbled version of what dwarf meant to say just for fun. What if eh??? What if......An early dose of Schadenfreude:):)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
#2. To: Sebastian, war, skip intro, go65, lucysmom, mininggold (#0)
#3. To: Sebastian (#0)
#4. To: Badeye (#3)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
#6. To: Badeye (#5)
#7. To: Sebastian (#0)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#8. To: e_type_jag (#1)
Looks like Obamunist's bitch is getting bitch slapped.
#9. To: Badeye (#5)
I think its hilarious [typical misogynist statment by Boofer deleted] *she* is blaming orthodox JEWS
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#10. To: war (#7)
This was a referendum on a pervert not a POTUS.
#11. To: Sebastian (#10)
Sure it was.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#12. To: A K A Stone, Ferret Mike, Fred Mertz, Skip Intro (#2)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#13. To: war (#7)
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#13)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#15. To: war (#14)
#16. To: war (#11)
Weiner would have been re-elected had he not self-imploded...
#17. To: Sebastian (#16)
ABC NEWS: [Ron Paul] added that the United States is in 130 countries and has 900 bases around the world, and added that “we’re broke.”. He was booed at a Tea-Party debate.
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Statist and all ships at sea. Your demonization of the Tea Party has worked - you need no longer fear it! Carry on!!
#18. To: no gnu taxes (#13)
I'm laughing my ass off at how you LOSERS are trying to spin this.
#19. To: Sebastian (#16)
That is an unprovable assertion.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#20. To: Sebastian (#16)
That is an unprovable assertion.
#21. To: war (#12)
You deleted a thread of mine?
#22. To: war (#12)
You deleted a thread of mine?
#23. To: A K A Stone (#22)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#24. To: Fred Mertz (#21)
(Edited)
What was the topic and what was it about?
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#25. To: A K A Stone (#6)
#26. To: Sebastian (#16)
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