NY-20 Special Election

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It appears Norm Coleman has given birth to a whole new level of sleaze in elections.

John Cornyn's the name.

Destroying Democracy's his game.

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This is pretty much going as most expected it to go, this is, afterall, a Republican district, even if it has trended Democrat slightly more in recent elections.

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I still think Tedisco's got it.

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I suspect we'll lose this in absentees. But at least it's not over yet.

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This is going to go on forever. Get ready.

Me and you will have something in common!

You have 6 years left for a fight.  This can go on for a maximum of 21 months until the next general election.

Which would give the Republicans a very easy way to freeze a Democrat out until the 2010 elections should Murphy look like he's going to win.

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The Democrats would be far, far too spineless to do something so bold, Lunar.

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With Tedisco challenging so many ballots, every current vote count is pretty useless.

That sounds so familiar.. where have I heard that before..?

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COLUMBIA COUNTY — 20th Congressional District candidate Republican Jim Tedisco submitted a petition to the Dutchess County Supreme Court Thursday asking the judge to declare him the winner of the extremely close special election race, despite the numbers currently being in favor of his opponent, Democrat Scott Murphy.

According to The Associated Press, Murphy leads Tedisco by 178 votes district wide — 79,452 to 79,274. The only ballots that have not been counted are those challenged by each candidate’s lawyers, and while Tedisco’s office has said the challenges are roughly evenly split between the two camps, Columbia County lawyers for Murphy have only challenged 22 ballots, while Tedisco’s have challenged 258.

Tedisco is also asking the court to authorize recanvasing of all machine ballots to acquire the “proper” tallies. He would like them to reassess the validity of absentee votes already counted, and keep ballots challenged by Tedisco unopened. County Board of Elections Democratic Commissioner Virginia Martin said this new development could result in the election taking quite a bit more time to be decided. She would not venture a guess on how long it will be before the 20th District has a representative in congress.

When all else fails, deny reality.

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When all else fails, deny reality.

Wasn't that George W. Bush's motto?

Yeah, it's actually one of the things Obama adopted from Bush.

Are you and Rowan a couple?