Comments on: NY-20: Siena Poll Shows Tedisco Four Points Behind

By: goldpearl

goldpearl — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:14:13 +0000

thank you julia

planning to drive up from ulster county w/ a friend to get the vote out on tuesday.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:37:36 +0000

I’m sort of enjoying Steele myself, but the whole situation, as you say, is a shiny object and it’s so hard for our friends in the wurlitzer to ignore a shiny object…

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:20:22 +0000

I think the humiliating resignation of the GOP’s first African American chair, and the mad scramble to replace him, perhaps with a (former) racist, may be of more value to Democrats than keeping Steele in place. He may have run his useful course for us; he can only actually improve from this point. Better we have the scandal of his being toppled and the juicy, horrid campaign to succeed him expose the GOP for what it is.

In my view.

And thanks, Julia, for keeping us up to date on NY-20. I’m happy to support Scott Murphy with a wee pittance earlier. Wish I could do more. He seems well-suited to the district.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:55:32 +0000

Didn’t I read somewhere that Murphy has said he’s a Blue Dog? Pretty bad when we have to support a Blue Dog just to keep a Rethug from getting elected. I’d say NY-20 Dems have some work to do between now and 2010.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:48:16 +0000

You know, I’ve been thinking that very thing.

Sort of makes you wonder why a party that doesn’t want that to happen is making so many basic mistakes.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:47:36 +0000

This has been gangs of fun. It’s a soap opera.

By: puravida

puravida — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:46:47 +0000

The downside to this is that if Tedisco loses, Michael Steele would probably be toast, as well.

And that would be a shame.

By: Gregg Levine

Gregg Levine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:45:55 +0000

Julia, I totally digg that you are keeping us up to date on this race. Thank you!

By: perris

perris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:57 +0000

Needless to say, a Republican running behind in a district with a 70,000+ Republican registration advantage isn’t very good news for the people who are trying to nationalize the election as a referendum on Obama.

they have yet to learn, the more they obstruct the peoples work and progressive agenda the more they will lose their seats to power

the problem is, the democrats haven’t learned that either and they continue trying to govern as though they are “moderate” when in fact that “moderation” is entirely right wing nut agenda

here’s what they are missing;

the republicans constituents do not want what the republican polititians promote, both democratic and republican constituents want a government FOR THE PEOPLE, not a government for and by corporations

we ALL have to board that ship