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The U.S. Midterm Elections!; Oh you knew this thread was coming.
Topic Started: Mar 17 2010, 08:54 AM (1,676 Views)
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Meanwhile, I am in suspence at the sudden turn in events over the past week in NY CD1's election saga.

Randy Altshuler May Actually Be The Winner. Bishop Demanding Recount

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Nothing is yet official, but the race for Congress is not over yet, at least not when it comes to the race between Tim Bishop and Randy Altshuler.

Tim Bishop sent an e-mail out to his supporters over the weekend,

“Suffolk County residents insisted on having a paper backup in the new machines to document every vote, and these circumstances demand we recount them all,” Bishop said in the e-mail.

On Friday, the Board of Elections announced that Bishop’s 3,461-vote lead over Altschuler had turned into a deficit of 392 votes behind the Republican.

Bishop’s camp has asked a judge to order a full hand recount, stating that there is significant reason to believe that the vote counts have been unreliable.


It even made it into USA Today - Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop of N.Y. to ask for recount

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Shades of Florida in 2000: On New York's Long Island, Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop will ask for a full recount today -- by hand -- of votes cast last week. Over the weekend, the Suffolk County Board of Elections discovered the unofficial tally released after polls closed was off by thousands.


What shades of florida? It was always close in Florida, the only bad numbers were the network projections. These were bad polling place nunbers.


It is times like these that makes me mad my Tea Party blogger friend decided to take a vacation after the election.

By the way, it's not that I don't like Tim Bishop, (because I don't) and it's not because he ran a local college into the financial ground (Southampton College) before he became a congressman. It is because the Republican's had a three way open primary and some people thought that democrcy (gasp) and letting the people decide (and not party bosses) was a bad thing. Even if Randy looses, this is the closest we have ever gotten to defeating Bishop ... it's a photo finish! One will win or loose by a nose!


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I'm getting tired of "Flimsey" Lindsey Graham(RINO SC) bitiching about the Tea Party ruining the chance for the Republicans from taking the senate. That stupid SOB is one of the problems in the party. He does not understand that my fellow conservatives are fed up with RINOs. I'd rather not have control of the senate, than have it packed with RINOs and establishment "Country Club" republicans like ol Flimsey. I'd rather have control of the house any day where all spending bill must origionate.

And whats up with that Trent Lott mouthing off about co-opting the newly elected republicans? Did he finally get free of the stake that was pounded in his heart?
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The Palentine,Nov 16 2010
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I'm getting tired of "Flimsey" Lindsey Graham(RINO SC) bitiching about the Tea Party ruining the chance for the Republicans from taking the senate.

Twit. Doesn't he realize that the Tea Party was the reason the GOP took so many state congresses, governorships, and the HoR?
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Once a progressive RINO, always a progressive RINO.

You see RINO's can't pronounce their own name; they often use the word "Republican" instead. So in that sense, he's right, the TEA party has prevented a RINO majority (so has a whole other other bunch of factors in that you can't out Democrat a Democrat and no one wants a Democrat lite RINO).
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They haven't finished all the counting in NY CD1 but now it is down to literally 84 votes between the Republican Randy and the Democrat Tim.
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The race for NC's CD2 finally came to a close today with Rene Ellmers beating Bob Etheridge by 1500 votes. The vote will be certified on Tuesday. All I can say is I'm glad the asshole is finally gone. Story

Believe it or not, he used to be a pretty decent Congressman until he turned in a jackass. I don't care about the whole assault thing from a couple months ago, that was a setup by the GOP but he was drunk at the time and had it coming. What pissed me off the most was THIS.
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