Comments on: Can Tedisco pull this out?

By: PoliGazette » Race in NY-20: It’s a tie ladies and gentlemen

PoliGazette » Race in NY-20: It’s a tie ladies and gentlemen — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:37:43 +0000

[...] and stranger as days go by. The voting machines are recanvassed, which led Republican Jim Tedisco to take the lead (by as few as 12 votes at a certain moment). As it is now, Tedisco and his Democratic opponent [...]

By: Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:58:21 +0000

Can Tedisco pull this out…

Why yes. Yes he can!

By: Crucial Military Votes Excluded in New York Special Election | OpenMarket.org

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:22:32 +0000

[...] would have tipped the race in favor of James Tedisco (R). Tedisco and Scott Murphy (D) are in a dead heat, with 77,225 votes [...]

By: Big John

Big John — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:56:51 +0000

And who says “my vote doesn’t count anyway so why bother?”

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:48:54 +0000

Do you believe? Time to put up.

Donate to the legal fund here.

http://www.jimtedisco.com

By: mauipundit

mauipundit — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:47:05 +0000

12 votes? Shoot, Acorn can find that many on the Dallas Cowboys and more!

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:40:50 +0000

Hannity is on with Tedisco now and he’s talking about military voter suppression.

Thread?

By: Hal-9000

Hal-9000 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:35:07 +0000

The Republican will not win this one simply because they refuse to play dirty. ACORN will come in and the Republicans will give up.

By: rob verdi

rob verdi — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:04:04 +0000

keep chipping away, add this to Cao’s win.(Hopefully)

By: Guardian

Guardian — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:58:15 +0000

This will allow the goons to ‘personally thank you’ for your vote.

Uniblogger on April 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM

That would be excellent. i would LOVE for some of Obama’s goons to show up in my front yard. I know a couple of pigs who would like to have them over for dinner.

By: jjshaka

jjshaka — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:55:52 +0000

Little gains here and there.
Wait til Obamas tax increases kick in and people start running out of unemployment- there was a reason the Porkulus added 20+ weeks of compensation.
Not to mention gas and utility bills going up.
Tax your way to victory in 2010, Democrats.

By: myrenovations

myrenovations — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:53:04 +0000

Is it just me or does this guy look kinda’ like Fred Barnes?

Y-not on April 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM

The red jacket photo makes him look like Mr. Rogers, to me.

By: Govgirl

Govgirl — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:46:39 +0000

The difference for the Dems in absentees in Columbia County are the votes of weekenders. City liberals who have a second house in the county, but live primarily in the city. For whatever reason they get to vote upstate, even though they do not live there most of the time. I guess they figure their vote is worth more there than in the already leftist stronghold of NYC. Until this little phenomenon began R’s held Columbia County pretty solidly, and a lot of the local seats are still held by Republicans.

By: logis

logis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:46:27 +0000

A generation ago, Republicans had a clear advantage in absentee ballots. Since then, Democrats have specifically organized for absentee voting and had taken the presumed edge.

The vast majority of valid absentee ballots are military personnel or businessmen who genuinely can’t be in the state at the time of the election. They’re going to swing about 80% Republican.

So if the numbers come out even, that means 80% of the Democrat absentee ballots are fraudulent.

By: PimFortuynsGhost

PimFortuynsGhost — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:42:34 +0000

tneloms on April 3, 2009 at 2:29 PM

My point is the bottom feeding lefties were indignant that Tedisco hadn’t conceded yet. My point has nothing to do with the Coleman/Tax Cheat election.

Christ, is that difficult to figure out?

By: Y-not

Y-not — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:31:29 +0000

Is it just me or does this guy look kinda' like Fred Barnes?

By: joepub

joepub — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:30:46 +0000

My Guess is that Tedisco wins… The absentee ballots were presumedly mailed weeks prior to the election, when Tedisco held a nice lead in the polls…that, combined with Ed’s info, give Tedisco a bigger bump…but who knows.

By: tneloms

tneloms — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:29:13 +0000

Hey, I thought Tedisco was supposed to admit defeat immediately Tuesday night since the people had spoken and he had obviously lost. Anything else and he would be a sore loser.

Er, well, that is what the piece of filth lefties told us, anyway.

PimFortuynsGhost on April 3, 2009 at 2:23 PM

Coleman urged Franken to concede on election night because he was ahead at that point. Both sides did the same thing. What’s your point?

By: PimFortuynsGhost

PimFortuynsGhost — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:23:54 +0000

Hey, I thought Tedisco was supposed to admit defeat immediately Tuesday night since the people had spoken and he had obviously lost. Anything else and he would be a sore loser.

Er, well, that is what the piece of filth lefties told us, anyway.

By: gridlock2

gridlock2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:21:08 +0000

The practical effect if Tedisco pulls this out will be minimal. One more Republican in the House will not make much difference. But the symbolic and political importance is huge.

This is the first election since Hopey/Changey ascended to the Presidency. No matter what happens with the recount, the shift to the Republicans in the past couple of months in this particular district is huge. Obama took this district by something like a 15% margin, and how he can’t get do better for his guy than what is, essentially, a tie.

Of course, if Murphy pulls out a win, it will be hailed as the greatest rout since Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill. But if Tedisco wins, it is going to be hard for them to avoid saying that voter sentiment has turned against the Democrats, hard.

By: HomeoftheBrave

HomeoftheBrave — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:35 +0000

Special Report: Al Franken has been called in to assist with the absentee ballot oversight…. stay tuned….

By: Loxodonta

Loxodonta — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:02:30 +0000

It does effect moral in the ranks.

petunia on April 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Very much so. Jennifer Rubin’s report provides hope. And given the disaster of the past 10 weeks, we need as much hope as we can get.

By: myrenovations

myrenovations — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:02:20 +0000

This is why I’ll NEVER use an absentee ballot.

DannoJyd on April 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM

I just started using the absentee ballot during the last primary and general elections. I live in a Democratis cess pool and it was so unpleasant having to go stand in line with them, waiting to vote.

But yeah, I may re-think my use of the absentee ballot.

By: kelley in virginia

kelley in virginia — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:01:17 +0000

i don’t vote absentee anymore unless its really an unusual circumstance. besides, my polling place has no lines, so why would i? to think my vote (one voice among many) would not be counted really peeves me. i hope the military takes notice that their votes weren’t wanted by the NY electoral board.

By: Uniblogger

Uniblogger — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:01:02 +0000

Next thing the Democrats will try is to apply ‘Card Check’ to our voting. When you cast your vote, a big neon sign will show how you voted.

This will allow the goons to ‘personally thank you’ for your vote.