Monthly Archives: March 2009
Murphy Finishes E-Day Ahead By 65 Votes
Murphy leads in NY-20 by 65 votes with all precincts reporting and 154,000 votes cast.
Behind for most of the night, Murphy pulled ahead with just 3 precincts left to report and held on through the end. Tedisco’s camp filed a challenge earlier in the day. Saratoga County GOP chair Jasper Nolan estimates there are 10,000 uncounted military and absentee votes yet to be counted. This race is not over yet.
As we’ve mentioned before, NY-20 has a 70,000… Read More
Tedisco Prepping For Loss?
Update from FDL on the Tedisco campaign, which is apparently gearing up for a loss in NY20:
Republican Jim Tedisco may be running for the House in a district where Republicans outnumber Democratic voters by some 70,000, but with the polls closing in a matter of hours, Tedisco’s campaign is prepping for a loss.
An electoral loss, anyway.
The Dutchess County Clerk’s Office has confirmed to FDL that Tedisco’s people have filed an ex parte motion in order, the
P H O N E – B A N K !
How many times do you get to GOTV in March!
Go phone bank for Scott Murphy today, because, well, the ELECTION IS TODAY.
ALL DAY at the NYS Dem HQ
461 Park Ave (betw 31st and 32nd)
10th Floor
MAP
POLLS CLOSE at 9PM
Big Day in NY20
Day of reckoning in NY20. Various sources for your tracking pleasure:
For obsessive coverage of today’s New York race, check Josh Kruashaar’s Scorecard, complete with 2:45 a.m. posting from Jim Tedisco’s all-night campaign.
Also, the Times Union and the left-leaning Albany Project are all over it, as are The Politicker and the Daily Politics.
Let’s hope these hardworking MYD phonebankers make a difference!

Hat tip: Marty for the link, Al for the pic
On Nationalization
I’m a little late getting to read this very provocative new Atlantic piece by a former chief economist at the IMF, but it is an absolute must read as we continue to flinch at these massive banks and their massive problems. It has also been making the rounds and causing quite a bit of secondary discussion on most of the good blogs. I’ll let this summary do the work and hopefully pique your interest:
The crash has laid
Enough.
I’ve had quite enough of political campaigns evoking 9/11 and terrorism as a means of ginning up votes. I’ve had enough of political ads that focus on tearing an opponent down, as opposed to lifting the country up. I’ve had more than enough of a political discourse that consists of fear mongering and character attacks. I’ve had enough of the assumption that the American people aren’t capable of engaging in a dialog that’s grounded in issues and ideas, the assumption… Read More




