New York Special Election

cawacko

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I didn't even know one was going on but it looks like a Democrat won in a very conservative district. Local paper (in SF) is saying the race was over Ryan's Medicare proposal. Any of you political junkies follow this race?
 
I didn't even know one was going on but it looks like a Democrat won in a very conservative district. Local paper (in SF) is saying the race was over Ryan's Medicare proposal. Any of you political junkies follow this race?

yes, it is the 26th congressional district in ny, not nyc, the district has gone repug for decades and today it went dem because the rep candidate supported the ryan medicare proposal
 
Yea, Isn't it funny? The Republicans have managed to lose any political advantage they had over health care reform by supporting Ryans reactionary social engineering. I wonder what the Republican response will be? My guess is that they will try to quietly distance themselves from Ryancare.
 
Yea, Isn't it funny? The Republicans have managed to lose any political advantage they had over health care reform by supporting Ryans reactionary social engineering. I wonder what the Republican response will be? My guess is that they will try to quietly distance themselves from Ryancare.

the only idiots who bought that lame propaganda are dumbass libtards like you
 
This was somewhere upstate I believe, between Buffalo and Rochestor.

Correct, but a Republican in NYS is moderate to liberal and a Democrat in NYS is liberal to socialist. Using this as an indicator of the country as a whole is a grave mistake.
 
Correct, but a Republican in NYS is moderate to liberal and a Democrat in NYS is liberal to socialist. Using this as an indicator of the country as a whole is a grave mistake.

:whome: Oh, well. The sordid, Repub love affair lasted about 7 months, November to May.

(Excerpt) The race in western New York's 26th Congressional District saw Democratic challenger Kathy Hochul taking on Republican Jane Corwin for the seat vacated by Chris Lee, a Republican who resigned in a scandal over marital infidelity......"I want to extend my congratulations to Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul for her victory," President Barack Obama said in a statement released by the White House.(End)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.f62f4dd34a5d23e8119e9e48921c98fb.101

Maybe Jane and Chris can get a job working on Newt's campaign. :D
 
Again, trying to access the mood of the country based on what happens in in NY State is a grave error. As I recall there was another special election held up there several months ago that went the same way.
 
Again, trying to access the mood of the country based on what happens in in NY State is a grave error. As I recall there was another special election held up there several months ago that went the same way.

I don't think it would take Nostradamus to predict that there will be serious political consequences for anyone who supports Ryancare. This is what Newt tried to say and he was shouted down by the right wing of his own party. Oh well, to paraphrase Ceasar "Let the dice fly!". LOL
 
15ppMoot, don't you think that folks should pay for some portion of their own care?

They all ready are! What the hell do you think that medicare deduction on your pay roll taxes are?

Don't you think that Republicans should lead on this issue? Ryancare is not leadership. Going backwards in time is not leadership. Ryancare is what we had prior to Medicare and Private insurance companies priced retired seniors out of the market and if Grandma fell down and broke her hip, her family had to pay for the surgery out of pocket. That's why Medicare was created in the first place because of the failure of the market to provide for the needs of our seniors and Ryancare would take us right back to that predicament. That's not leadership that just piss poor public policy.
 
Again, trying to access the mood of the country based on what happens in in NY State is a grave error. As I recall there was another special election held up there several months ago that went the same way.

Really, what special election held up there several months ago?
 
Republicans spending cut momentum is sinking like volunteers to take Bin Ladens job.

Obama only plans to cut military spending by a little less growth than inflation. WTF

That is how he is fucking the republitards without a reach around. There is not a single repuke widestancer who would propose gashing military spending.
 
New York
Republican candidate 43%
Tea Party candidate 9%

equals 52%

Democratic candidate 47%....

how is this a referendum on a Wisconsin representative's budget proposal?....
 
teabagger party is losing steam so fast it's hillarious.
You energized the base and that's it.
Anybody with any education knows the small gov cut spending is a fucking hillarious joke.
You won't fucking touch military spending
Please stfu about small gov it's tired and lame and almost as old as Mcfossil
 
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