59 votes separate the candidates ... it comes down to 10,099 absentee and military ballots that may not be counted till April 13th
This SHOULD have been a landslide for Tedisco.
Yea, it should have but this is what happens when you start a campaign off as poorly as Tedisco did. He came out of the box in a negative way and made himself look arrogant and slick. He took a nose dive from there. It appears that he changed course just in time. Absentee ballots should break towards Tedisco as I'm hearing a lot of the ballots went out in Saratoga County and the Military ballots should lean Republican. Boy is this gonna get messy!
59 votes separate the candidates ... it comes down to 10,099 absentee and military ballots that may not be counted till April 13th
This SHOULD have been a landslide for Tedisco.
Yea, it should have but this is what happens when you start a campaign off as poorly as Tedisco did. He came out of the box in a negative way and made himself look arrogant and slick. He took a nose dive from there. It appears that he changed course just in time. Absentee ballots should break towards Tedisco as I'm hearing a lot of the ballots went out in Saratoga County and the Military ballots should lean Republican. Boy is this gonna get messy!
Yea, it should have but this is what happens when you start a campaign off as poorly as Tedisco did. He came out of the box in a negative way and made himself look arrogant and slick. He took a nose dive from there. It appears that he changed course just in time. Absentee ballots should break towards Tedisco as I'm hearing a lot of the ballots went out in Saratoga County and the Military ballots should lean Republican. Boy is this gonna get messy!
20TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Race nearly a dead heat Absentee ballots expected to decide victor BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter
Democrat Scott Murphy held a razor-thin lead over Republican James Tedisco Tuesday evening, but it will be up to absentee ballots to determine the winner of the special election. With 100 percent of the precincts in the congressional district reporting, Murphy led Tedisco by 65 votes out of 154,623 cast, according to The Associated Press. But the estimated 10,055 absentee and affidavit ballots that are out in the 10 counties could swing the race. As of Monday, 5,907 ballots had been returned to the state Board of Elections. Absentee ballots received by April 13 will be counted as long as they were postmarked by Monday, so the result will not be offi cial before then. When the absentee ballots are all received, a judge will oversee the counting; the state Republican Committee obtained a court order to impound all paper ballots cast. That process could delay the announcement of a winner for months, said state Board of Elections spokesman Bob Brehm. John “Jasper” Nolan, chairman of the Saratoga County Republican Committee, said Tedisco is likely to have an edge with absentee ballots. Nolan said many of the absentee voters are Republicans — retired people spending their winter in Florida or South Carolina and members of the United States military overseas or stationed away from their home voting districts. Tedisco said he is optimistic that the absentee ballots will bring him victory in the special election. “We knew it was going to come down to the wire,” Tedisco said at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Springs. He said he is confident that the military ballots will be in his favor. “We will have to wait for the count and see what happens,” Tedisco said. Murphy had not made a statement as of late Tuesday evening. Judge James Brands of state Supreme Court in Dutchess County issued the order to impound the paper ballots at the request of Joseph Mondello, chairman of the state Republican Committee, and Patricia Killian, chairwoman of the Dutchess County Conservative Committee. John Ciampoli filed paperwork in Dutchess County Court Tuesday. Ciampoli is an Albany attorney who represented opponents who succeeded in knocking Libertarian Eric Sundwall off the congressional ballot. The order puts the judge in control of recanvassing the ballots, Brehm said. “When you get an order, the judge takes over the process.” The eventual winner will fill the seat formerly held by Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat. Gov. David Paterson selected Gillibrand to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when Clinton was confirmed as secretary of state. On Tuesday night, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans were celebrating too much. Most of the people at the large Tedisco gathering at the Holiday Inn on South Broadway in Saratoga Springs kept one eye on television election results as they sipped their drinks and munched on finger foods. The Democrats at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs were hopeful but cautious. “I’m watching the results come in like everyone else,” Murphy spokesman Ryan Rudominer said, glued to his laptop in the hallway. Murphy, 39, a businessman who lives in Glens Falls, staked his campaign on support for President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan, while Tedisco opposed what he called the plan’s wasteful spending. Tedisco, 58, is the Assembly minority leader who has made a name for himself as a fighter in Albany. He has served in the Assembly for 26 years. “He’s pumped on adrenalin,” said Adam Kramer, a Tedisco spokesman. Recent polls showed the two battling neck and neck for the open seat. Murphy polled 4 percentage points above Tedisco in a Siena Research Institute survey released Friday. Murphy snagged endorsements from Gillibrand, Sen. Charles Schumer, Vice President Joe Biden and Obama during the whirlwind two-month campaign. But Tedisco started out better known in the district and also had the GOP enrollment edge on his side. In Saratoga County, much of which lies within Tedisco’s Assembly district, Tedisco garnered 30,247 votes to Murphy’s 25,837. Voter turnout throughout the district was about 32 percent, which Skidmore College political science professor Robert Turner said seemed high for a special election. Locally, poll workers also reported a good turnout despite their low expectations. “I figured we’d be sitting here twiddling our thumbs today,” said Brenda Howe, elections inspector in Milton’s District 13. Nolan said the voter turnout in Saratoga County was heavy. He said the good weather, hard work by Tedisco volunteers and staff members, and ample publicity about the special election brought people to the polls. About 17 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots at Skidmore College’s District 24 by 4 p.m. “I would like to see a little more,” said Democratic election inspector Lou Schneider. “We find that in special elections, it’s very difficult for people to vote, especially students.” Michael DeMartino, a Republican poll watcher, challenged the residency of several Skidmore students who came to vote. He said students move off campus and forget to change their registration to their new district. A Democratic poll watcher, Todd Kerner, also came to................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00100
well now that tedisc got BEAT BAD AS THE HEAVY FAVORIT WHAT DO YOU REPUBS THINK NOW stunads? you all want to ruin everryones life with the economy and put another repub in to do it but you lost
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Well, I had blocked "Sally" - but had to unblock temporarily to see what spewed from his orifice.
In this case, I gotta agree with him, Tedisco got buried - one by an unknown, two by a dem party that was starting off with a -75k enrollment disadvantage. Tedisco SHOULD have done better, no doubt - and yes Sally, he did get his a** whooped. He may or may not be defeated, we won't know that for two weeks, but it NEVER should have been this close. Murphy's message was clear, it sounded like he had a plan (I personally didn't agree with it, but he did express it) - whereas Tedisco came out, thanks to the state and national party slinging mud and not EXPRESSING a clear plan for the future. He may have had one, I just don't think he did a good job telling us what it was.
Had he not started out of the gate by bashing his opponent, he would have walked away with this race, as he should have.
the race is over isnt it and Murphy won so why is Tedisc trying to hurt the country by making it go into a re - count like bush did many years ago WE DONT NEED TO DEVIDE WE NEED TO UNITE NOW BEHIND THE PRES.
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