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 Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject: Republicans Eye Upset in New York Vote for Weiner’s House Se |
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Republicans hope to score an upset win in a special election in New York City today to replace former Representative Anthony Weiner, who resigned in disgrace, as Democrats fight to overcome President Barack Obama’s poor approval ratings and opposition to his policy on Israel.
Republican Bob Turner led Democrat David Weprin, 47 percent to 41 percent, in a Sept. 8-11 poll of the district’s voters by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, North Carolina. A poll last week by Siena Research Institute in Loudonville, New York, also gave Turner a six-point lead.
“People are very upset with Washington,” said Steven Greenberg, a Siena pollster. “They’re very angry about the economy and the jobs situation. And they’re prepared to take it out on the Democrats, even though the vast majority of the voters in this district are Democrats.”
Weiner, a married 47-year-old Democrat, resigned the seat in June following revelations he sent lewd photos of himself and messages to women over the Internet. The vote to replace him comes less than four months after Democrats scored an upset to win a House seat in western New York that opened up when married Republican Representative Christopher Lee, 47, resigned after revelations that he had sent a bare-chested photo of himself to a woman he met online.
Nevada Race
The race to replace Weiner in a district that includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn is one of two special elections today. Republicans expected to retain a House seat in Nevada vacated when Representative Dean Heller was appointed to the Senate in May. Initially, the Nevada race was seen as competitive, though the district leans Republican.
In the New York race, Democrats undertook a last-ditch bid to keep the seat, spending almost $500,000 on television ads and organizing a get-out-the-vote drive that includes the aid of about 1,000 volunteers and automated phone calls from Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and former President Bill Clinton.
“Democrats will be fighting right until the polls close for every last vote,” Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, said in an e-mail yesterday.
Few would have anticipated that the party would need such an effort to hold the seat. Democrats accounted for 57 percent of the district’s registered voters as of April, according to the New York State Board of Elections, and Weiner won his seventh tern in November with about 59 percent of the vote. Obama carried the district with 55 percent in 2008.
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