Comments on: For Democrats, NY-23 is Heads We Win, Tails They Lose

By: Cynthia Kouril

Cynthia Kouril — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:41 +0000

Yes, the New York Democratic Lawyers Council has an election protoection effort going on.

By: skiritae

skiritae — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Wow. You guys really don’t understand, do you?

Reading through these comments is both funny and sad.

Most posters here seem to be looking through the binoculars backwards, and Conservatives seem small and funny …and backward..and mean…rural…cheaters…poll violaters…robots….violent people wracked by turmoil and tension in their own party, incapable of an original thought unless ordered to think it by their masters, Beck and Limbaugh.

You DO know that is silly, right?

Unfortunatel

By: Twain

Twain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:23:49 +0000

I also see that it is 93.8% white. Couldn’t have anything to do with it I suppose. Nah.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:18:06 +0000

Once you get much above Poughkeepsie, it is far more conservative.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:17:08 +0000

Since it’s area cuts over the top of a lot of other districts, it will most likely be apportioned amongst them. For example, it currently includes parts of Oneida and Lewis counties. I know most of Oneida County is Mike Arcuri (NY24) so would seem to naturally fit rather than trying to force something across such a wide swath of land

By: Twain

Twain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:12:15 +0000

Huge district. Thanks, dakine. I had no idea where it was. I always think of NY state as being fairly liberal.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:09:55 +0000

you could say that wiki Geographically it's huge. Don't know what will happen to it when NY loses a district in reapportionment, tho.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:08:47 +0000

It is extremely rural, stretching across most of the upstate area. Here's the map from wiki

By: Twain

Twain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:05:58 +0000

May be stupid question but why is this district so Republican? Since the Civil War? good grief. Is it rural?

By: MollyNYC

MollyNYC — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:03:00 +0000

It’s switching out one Republican for another, so it’s not a net loss/gain in party numbers. For now.

But Doug Hoffman is pretty much the poster boy for incompetent wingnut ideologues: mealy-mouthed, ignorant AND stupid–and particularly (a) doesn’t have a thought in his goo-goo-googly-eyed head that wasn’t placed and approved by the crazy-ass wing of the GOP; and (b) thinks his orthodoxy in this regard is what qualifies him for the office.

If elected, he’ll alternate between sucking his thumb and doing whatever Glenn Beck tells him to do.

Want the 23d to go Democratic in 2010? Let them suffer this fool for a year. And as an example of the sort of representation you get when you vote for the GOP, he could help bring other districts–hell, whole states–over to the Blue side.