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NY-26: Kathy Hochul victory thread
An amazing win tonight, no doubt about it. Kathy Hochul not only won, but her share of the vote stands at an impressive 48%. Beltway pundits will try to tell you this race means nothing, on account of...
View ArticleNY-26: Kathy Hochul victory thread #2
A few final thoughts as we chew this one over. First off, Siena's final poll had 13% of Republicans and 10% of Democrats voting for Jack Davis; PPP had it 16R, 8D. Regardless of which numbers you...
View ArticleAfter NY-26, Will The Medicare Issue Scare The GOP?
Seniors vote. Always have and always will. Let seniors get a whiff that you will vote against their interests, then you should be scared. Last night, Dems won a special election in a very red...
View ArticleNY-26 Upset Democratic Win, and Palin Says?
Aside from the upset victory of a Democratic win in a heavily Republican upstate NY district, aside from thwarting Paul Ryan's national aspirations, aside from lessening his stature on the political...
View ArticleNate Silver on NY-26
Still, a seat that would ordinarily be won by Republicans by about 12 points, but was instead won by the Democrats by 6 points, is a pretty big deviation from the norm. Odds are, like in the special...
View ArticleNY-26: a rerun worth watching
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, August 14, 1935: We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law...
View ArticleDrudge: NY-26 didn't happen
For the rest of America, the election of Kathy Hochul last night in a heavily Republican district was a watershed moment on the Ryan budget and plan to eliminate ("reform") Medicare. It is front-page...
View ArticleNY-26 Lesson: Don't Mess With Medicare -- Or Social Security!
In 2010 Republicans and corporate front groups ran ad after ad after ad after ad claiming that Democrats had "Cut 500 billion from Medicare." Those ads brought them the senior vote, and they took the...
View ArticlePaul Ryan blames his Medicare voucher plan on liberals
On Morning Joe this a.m, Congressman Paul Ryan seemed manic, defensive, and vexed. His frustration, anger, and paranoia were palpable. Those hypnotic blue eyes are now puffy and red from exhaustion....
View ArticleNY-26: What they're saying the day after
Kathy Hochul herself: Tonight’s victory is an achievement many called impossible. Tonight we showed that many voters are willing to ignore a party label and vote for the person and for the message...
View ArticleKathy Hochul Supports Marriage Equality
If you blinked you might have missed this, but Kathy Hochul supports marriage equality: [Q] Do you support same-sex marriage? Hochul: I support the civil institution of marriage for gay couples, with...
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NY-26: Lessons from Tuesday night
The polls hadn't even closed yet in upstate New York Tuesday night before the instant analysis of "what it all means" began pouring in from all corners. Predictably, the GOP took on the Kevin Bacon...
View ArticleRedistricting New York: 15-1-11
There have already been a lot of New York redistricting proposals on SSP and DKE. Here is mine. The result is 15 districts that are safe D, 1 that is safe R, and 11 tossups (by PVI). It's a bipartisan...
View ArticleJack Davis and the NY-26 special
After the recent Special Election in New York's 26th Congressional District, speculation abounds whether the presence of a third-party candidate in former Democratic Congressional candidate Jack...
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Is Medicare 'Grand Bargain' still on the table?
President Obama's reaction to the Kathy Hochul victory in NY-26 ignores the great big elephant in the room: President Obama congratulated the winner of Tuesday's special election in upstate New York,...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 5/26
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here. Senate: • NE-Sen: Is Mike Huckabee trying to set himself up favorably for 2016? He just endorsed AG Jon Bruning...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 5/27
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here. Senate: • AZ-Sen, AZ-08: Kyle Trygstad of Roll Call canvasses politicos on both sides of the aisle in Arizona...
View ArticleVoters say “rearrange the furniture”; politicians hear “remodel the house.”
That is a key line from an op ed in today's New York Times by Charles Blow. The piece, titled Endangered Ryan-os, begins like this: It’s hard to overstate just how profoundly Republicans...
View ArticleIn Memoriam
There are any number of things worth addressing this weekend: the way that four dead presidents could rally a congressional district in upstate New York to win a House seat---quite a trick, a...
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NY-26: Why Democrat Kathy Hochul's win is not easily minimized
Let me start this little dollop of post-game analysis by doing something extraordinarily rare: agreeing with the GOP spinmeisters and the esteemed community of political pundits. It is possible to...
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