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Referendum Or Local Politics? Dems Lose Congressional Seat In Special Election

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The aftershocks of the Weinergate scandal appear to have left yet another victim: the Democratic Party. Last night’s special election for NY’s 9th district saw Republican Bob Turner take the congressional seat suddenly vacated this summer by Anthony Weiner‘s resignation. It’s clearly an upset in the traditionally Democratic district, and already the news media have called it a “referendum on Obama.” But does that tell the whole story?

The Associated Press reports:

Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic policies.

Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin in a special election Tuesday to succeed Rep. Anthony Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June after a sexting scandal.

With about 70 percent of precincts reporting late Tuesday, Turner had 53 percent of the vote to Weprin’s 47 percent.

The heavily Democratic district, which spans parts of Queens and Brooklyn, had never sent a Republican to the House. But frustration with the continued weak national economy gave Republicans the edge.

The AP continues to report what many already felt, that this election should have been an easy win for the Democrats. But all politics are local, and the 9th District of New York (which includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn) has a very unique demographic makeup. Like much of New York city, there is wide diversity, however, this particular district is home to many orthodox and conservative Jews, many of whom supported Anthony Weiner’s very strong pro-Israel stance of the last ten years, but were disappointed to see an undisciplined sex scandal become his undoing. Several local political experts have also suggested that Weiner’s marriage to Huma Abedin, a practicing Muslim-American, as another fateful blow.

How does this relate to the Democratic candidate David Weprin? As the AP Reports, Weprin, an Orthodox Jew himself, reportedly advanced some policies that did not play particularly well with a more religiously conservative base:

Weprin became embroiled in New York-centric disputes over Israel and gay marriage, which cost him some support among Jewish voters.

Orthodox Jews, who tend to be conservative on social issues, expressed anger over Weprin’s vote in the Assembly to legalize gay marriage. In July, New York became one of six states to recognize same-sex nuptials.

There is no question that the loss of this congressional seat is a big blow to the Democratic party, and it could very well portend more bad political news for the DNC for the coming political season. It is too early, however, to simply proclaim this as pure referendum on the Obama administration. His approval ratings are down, but not nearly as low as Congress. As is the case in most political news narratives, the answer will be found in the coming election, and history, as they say, is written by the winners.

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  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Fuckin’ Democrats are always losin’ their Weiner in somebody’s seat. LMFAO! Heheheheheheheheheheh!

  • Anonymous

    Even Obama knows he doesn’t deserve reelection .  He’s campaigning foolishly , desperately on his ” jobs ” bill , sounding like a crazed Jeremiah Wright , exhorting Congress to throw more money to the unions and throw it away on green ” jobs ” . Demagoguery is frowned upon by all but the most partisan liberal . Dems are now looking to distance themselves from Obama and maybe find a primary challenger .

    The Dem machine went all out to keep a safe seat , with money and union get out the “vote ” operations . Now the Begala types (liars) will try to spin it , but it’s Obama’s loss . Little Debbie will probably be replaced sometime soon . She’s another Pelosi , and that spells doom for the Dems next year .

    Republican Bob Turner’s victory in the closely watched special election to replace disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner delivered an unmistakable message to President Obama: Be afraid, be very afraid, of what’s coming down the pike in 2012.That a Brooklyn-Queens district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1 could swing to a GOP candidate who was outspent and outmanned — and where unions poured in enormous resources in the final hours — doesn’t bode well for a president facing re-election in a queasy economy.Public Policy Polling minced no words when it reported Sunday that Assemblyman David Weprin, handpicked by Democratic leaders as their so-called sure-shot candidate, was undone by a president whose approval rating in the district came in at a dismal 31 percent.Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/disaster_looms_for_in_G1cGiO8AMtBl9uwQn0M2TO#ixzz1XvTy5XJZ

  • Broadhorizons

    sigh… another one bites the dust.

  • L_Salazar

    His (Obama’s) approval ratings are down, but not nearly as low as Congress.

    The last time I checked, Congress is not running for President!

  • Anonymous

    Democrats are spinning like tops this morning trying to make this about ANYTHING but Obama and the Democrat agenda in general. So predictable and so sad.

  • Norbit

    It was a simple choice for the district:

    The party supporting the downward spiral into Euro-Socialism and bankruptcy, and an end to the Israeli state thrown in for good measure. (They have to appease the rank anti-Semites in the party, who now represent a significant, shall we say, movement – heh-heh – within the ranks.)

    - or -

    The party more likely to ensure that Israel will still be with us!

    Hey DNC, any of that Hollywood money drying up yet?
    Don’t worry, they’ll be the last to accede!

  • Norbit

    Oh, and by the way….You’re Still Doing GREAT Ed!

  • jayamerican

    “Referendum Or Local Politics?”

    I think that you can safely remove the question mark from that headline. It sounds like you are weakly asking for some alternate explanation, grasping at anything that you can throw up against the bleak (for libs like you) truth. Obama’s polling and approval numbers are abysmal. His advisors are clearly amateurs and completely ineffective. His ideas and jobs plan are the same tired dem/progressive sad beleifs that the government can create jobs by spending money dressed up with fancy synonyms thay have scored well in focus groups. The government can help create jobs…by getting the hell out of the way and letting motivated American entrepeneurs and buisnesses do what they do better than any one in the world.

  • Anonymous

    This is some good revisionist spin, Colby. You essentially blame the loss here on Weiner’s scandal and his marriage to a Muslim, except he was not running.

    As for your take on Obama’s approval numbers not being as bad as Congress, this is a new twist. When George Bush was tanking in approvals that was banner headlines in the press, even as the Pelosi/Reid Congress had approvals that dropped into the single-digits.

  • TruDat

    The country has tired of the lying left-wing loons.  Once elected, it never takes long for the Democrats to prove their incompetence and get voted right back out of office.  They haven’t seen anything yet.  I predict that 2012 will be the largest turnout of conservatives this country has ever seen; there’ll be a clean sweep of Democrats out of office.

  • Anonymous

    This is the first time a Republican has held this seat since the 1920s.  But that does not mean a thing, according to this site.

  • Anonymous

    This is really funny Colby – lets go back to see what mediaite said about NY-26; I don’t think there was skepticism in your headlines, it was more like – the Republicans are screwed, a democrat wins in a republican district, etc., etc.  Celebrating her victory as a referendum against republican policies, and now…..you ask the question rather than celebrate the win because a repblican won it.

    Still nothing on Solyndra – ZIP, SILENCE…even though the wh IMPLICATION of involvement are growing and growing and growing and growing.  And yet….crickets here and in the left wing media.

    This is why FNC kicks butt in the ratings; we get the NEWS from them.

  • Free Man

    To mediaite and the rest of the liberal media, It’s only a referendum if the democrats win… it’s local politics when a republican wins.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Let’s see…if the GOP had lost both seats, it would have been “a national warning sign to Republicans to get on board with Obama’s agenda or face massive losses next year. Signs momentum has swung back to the President’s party. All hope is not lost for the Democrats, and in fact, this may just be the beginning.” Etc.

    We all know how the media wanted this to turn out. We all know the story they wanted to write.

    But the GOP swept.

    And thus, today’s Democrat/media narrative is “oh, well these are just local races. No biggie. Completely meaningless in every way possible. Especially that NY seat that Democrats held since 1923. Nothing to see here. Move along. Hey! Obama’s giving a speech somewhere! Isn’t he great?”

  • Norbit

    Who would have thought, as contemptable as Weiner is, he would be the bird in the cave, and a harbinger for brighter days to come.

    I just hope the GOP’s total ineptitude in camaigning and getting a message out doesn’t once again turn victory into defeat.

    Just keep John McCain away from…um…Everyone!

  • Norbit

    The House is opening hearings today on it.
    Let’s all expose the duplicity and dishonesty of the network and mainstream media as they try to ignore, dismiss or cover-up this story.

    The big political question on this, is if any of the $535 Million taxpayer dollars will somehow be funnelled into Obama’s re-election campaign.
    Remember, these are community-organizing, elitist, academist Democrats. Laws don’t matter to them, unless they can be used to usurp more power and control.

  • Anonymous

    An election like this is like a pond of a breezy day with ripples and waves going in every direction but the bottom line is if the president and the democrats were presenting a compelling argument and had real results to show for their efforts then the outcome would have swung enough toward democrats for a win.

    They didn’t lose because of Weiner,they lost because there isn’t any real reason to be party faithful.

    In other news I’m glad Tommy didn’t write this article or we’d be treated to a 500 word thesis on why this is somehow not a democratic defeat or statement on the failures of the party and president/congress and maybe is the results of some kind of republican campaign of deception.

  • Thomas G Williams

    a Bagger wins, America loses. Another one of those terrorist rethugs who will destroy the country if he dose not get things his way. Votes are coming up where this Bagger will bow down to the Cock Brothers way of doing things.

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA’S HUGE LOSS

    Obama’s huge loss in New York would have been put off till next year if The Tweetmaster had kept his seat . The Dems would have kept him if they knew they would lose the Ferrarro/Schumer/Weiner district . They thought it was safe , and it was for 90 years , until Obama showed up .

  • Anonymous

    It is an embarrassment to Dan that his authors here at mediaite have refused to report on it; instead we get stories about Levi Johnson.
    Shameful

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    hang on…I’m a little dizzy from the spin.

    This NY district replaced a far leftwing nut with a republican.  And you want us to believe this is just local politics?  Ummm…ok, sure.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    U mad?

  • You Mad

    Angry much? People like you are the reason people are flocking away from your party.

  • Anonymous

    I seem to vaguely remember two other New York special elections and the Republicans lost two “red” seats within the past year. So I guess the sky is not falling. As a result, the better spin is America is simply fed up with Congress and the games it has played.

  • Anonymous

    I seem to vaguely remember two other New York special elections and the Republicans lost two “red” seats within the past year. So I guess the sky is not falling. As a result, the better spin is America is simply fed up with Congress and the games it has played.

  • Yukon Jack

    The orthodox Jewish Democratic candidate, Davie Weprin should have asked Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson to campaign for him. He needed somebody on his side and who could be called a better endorsement than these three worthies??

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA’S DEVASTATING LOSS

    This monumental loss of Obama’s will insure that he does not utter a peep on his approval of gay marriage until after election day , 2012 .

  • Guest

    I’m perfectly happy with you ignoring the writing on the wall.  
     
     
    Please continue to pretend the amazing results of both special elections last night mean nothing.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Whatever you have to believe to help you sleep at night, bro.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Scott Brown’s victory was declared a referendum on both Obama generally and health care reform specifically. From the NY Post to A.P. to Morning Joe the refrain was the same… To the point that Brown himself denied his election signified any referendum.

    The real deal is that the Teavangelical fundamentalist has no patience for nuance as it deviates from the one overriding “fact”…Obama represents the culmination of Americas great sins and is the precursor to a final cleansing. This must be a referendum, past and present be damned.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Republicans, don’t get too excited.

    As someone who has lived in NYC, I can tell you that this guy is a RINO all the way.

    The result may represent a general frustration, but it’s hardly a shift to the right.  Your average Republican would/could NEVER get elected to anything in NYC.

    In New York, the Republican party is just a label that some democratic candidates use to avoid a primary fight.

  • Victor Noir

    I wish I had some clever spin to convince myself this doesn’t matter, but I’m afraid there’s no way to polish this turd.  We got our asses handed to us.  We probably deserve it for electing Weiner.  I just hope the DNC learns something from this (for a change). 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    @Victor

    Well, some of your compatriots upthread have provided a whole host of ways you can try (and fail) to spin this.

    Honesty is important, though, and you are to be commended.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    Wow- you’ve totally changed my mind with your persuasive argument you have there.  You should campaign for Obama.  You would definitely be an asset.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    I think that the Dems should be afraid, very very afraid….  the republican ran his campaign against Obama, not his opponent…

    They can say what they want but the republican seat lost earlier in the year was lost because the Dems used a false argument against Ryan’s attempt to address the problems facing the Social Security Trust fund..  the republican candidate could not recover as it took time for the truths surrounding the Trust fund to sink in..  

    This was a straight up referendum on President Obama and his policies in a heavily democratic district and Obama lost, plain and simple…

    LOL it is funny to watch Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other leading democrats spin like tops in a school yard trying to deflect on this story…  

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Ooooo yeah, that’s some good spin there.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think anybody was denying the Brown win was a referendum, it being Kennedy’s old position and all.  Colby however is denying the significance of the seat Weiner had for 12 years being won by a Republican for the first time in over 80 years. 

  • Anonymous

    I see another Soros checked cleared.

  • TruDat

    You and the rest of your liberal loser friends are meaningless.  The country is fed up with your deficit spending, taxes, abortion worship, global warming lies, and all around hypocritical BS.

  • Anonymous

    Michael Bloomberg got elected as a Republican.   I don’t know many national Republicans that want to claim him.   But he’s exactly the type of Republican that wins in NYC.  Socially liberal, fiscally moderate.

  • TruDat

    Spin away.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I’ll take it over an Obamacrat any day. Say hello to your new GOP rep.

  • Anonymous

    This is a harbinger of things to come for the Dimocrats. Loopy socialists & goofy greenies OUT; proud patriots & common-sense conservatives IN. Palin/2012!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    As I said, Brown himself countered the narrative developed by the media… A referendum narrative unsupported by exit polls by the way. I find it absurd to lament the media’s inability to see referendum when we just recently saw another referendum that only existed only in the media.

  • Anonymous

    In some ways it’s not that scary to me….because if he wants to keep his seat, he’ll have to vote with Dems at least half the time anyway.

  • Anonymous

    you’re gonna like our nuts

  • gordonbloyershow

    You Obamakins are soooooooooo dumb. He can’t even sell his job plan.
    Obama has so much baggage he should be working for Samsonite.

    Obama Approval Plummets Among Americans Skeptical of Jobs Plan
    By Julianna Goldman – Sep 14, 2011
    A majority of Americans don’t believe President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepticism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election.
    The downbeat assessment of the American Jobs Act reflects a growing and broad sense of dissatisfaction with the president. Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy by 62 percent to 33 percent, a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Sept. 9-12 shows. The disapproval number represents a nine point increase from six months ago.
    The president’s job approval rating also stands at the lowest of his presidency — 45 percent. That rating is driven down in part by a majority of independents, 53 percent, who disapprove of his performance.
    “I don’t think he’s done as good a job as I think he could have,” said Paul Kaplan, 58, an unemployed Democrat from Philadelphia. “We were hopeful that things would improve in the economy and they’ve only gotten worse. People in Washington just don’t seem to want to cooperate with each other and work for the people.”
    The poll hands Obama new lows in each of the categories that measures his performance on the economy: only 36 percent of respondents approve of his efforts to create jobs, 30 percent approve of how he’s tackled the budget deficit and 39 percent approve of his handling of health care.

  • gordonbloyershow

    Remember when the dems took that republican seat in N.Y. all the libs here were claiming it was the end of the republicans. LOL

  • Yukon Jack

    When a dyed-in-the-wool, like-long Democrat. like Ed Koch endorses and stands with a Republican,  0bama and his pathetic acolytes must realize that they do not deserve re-election.

  • Yukon Jack

    When a dyed-in-the-wool, like-long Democrat. like Ed Koch endorses and stands with a Republican,  0bama and his pathetic acolytes must realize that they do not deserve re-election.

  • Guest

    Keep up your compelling and intellectual argument.  I almost became a liberal when you said “bagger”.  With your powers of persuasion and irrefutable points, you surely are on a debate team or at least a well read intellectual…right?

  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    Colby and Tommy can try to spin it any way they want. The 2010 elections were a referundum on Obama. The New York and Nevada elections yesterday were a referundum on Obama. You may be able to blame the NY-09 loss on Muslim wife of a disgraced congressman, how do you explain Nevada loss?

  • Anonymous

    See, what you’re failing to admit is that if a Republican in NY (where I live, by the way) has to be a RINO, then what does that tell you about how far to the left most Democrats here are?  Answer: very far. 

    You can’t have it both ways, dude. 

    I seem to remember Giuliani was elected here, and what a breath of fresh air he was after the disaster that was David Dinkens.  Now, would he have been elected in Alabama?  No.  But he was still –on most issues– far to the right of typical NY Dems.  He didn’t get himself caught up in the social issues that religious conservatives do by and large, but he clamped down on crime in the city and is largely responsible for the tradition that carries on today.  I never feel unsafe in Manhattan anymore.  That wasn’t the case back in the “old” days. 

  • Anonymous

    I could be wrong, but I seem to remember the main campaign issue with Brown was his stance on the Health Care bill.  So his words aside, if he ran on the platform of voting against Obama’s bill that was effectively a referendum.

  • Guest

    Even that spin doesn’t pass the common sense test since both losers from last night were not incumbents.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Aren’t you getting a little dizzy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    What you fail to recognize and what you don’t care to admit is that he ran his campaign squarely in opposition to the policies of the president…  you can say what you care to about this man but he was no friend to Obama during the campaign, and for that he is not Representative Elect…  

    Spin that.

  • Anonymous

    Lets suppose you are right……..’can you point to ANY time in history, where only ‘Cutting Taxes’ grew the economy?’  I’ll await your history lesson!

  • Rio

    Exactly, when Obama hit the fan.

  • Guest

    Obama thanks you for lowering the bar. ;)

  • Guest

    If he’s a “rino” why are you far left loons soooo pissed? You should be happy, right?

  • Texan

    Test…disqus sucks so bad…

  • Texan

    Test…disqus sucks so bad…

  • Michelle

    Spin away, Colby!

  • Rio

    Colby, members of Congress won’t be on the top of the 2012 ballot, as you said, “All politics are local” and I love my congressman.  Waste of time paying attention to anything other than individual polls and no one is wasting time and money on that kind of polling this far out.  How many even have an opponent yet?

    Obama is going to be a dead weight around the necks of democrats running in tight districts.  After last night, that district could be in almost anywhere.  Too bad, so sad, different time, different day.  Just look back to January, 2009 and remember those heady days, the cocky attitudes, the beligerence, the sore winners.  Yeah, those were the days, heh.

  • Michelle

    Spin this, Colby.

    Bloomberg asks respondents whether they will definitely vote for Obama in 2012, and only 29% of them say yes.  Another 21% say they will consider a different candidate, while 43% say they will definitely not
    vote for Obama.  Among Democrats, only 67% don’t want a primary
    challenge in 2012 against the sitting President, while 30% “would like
    another candidate to try” for the nomination.

  • Anonymous

    I keep telling you, Eddie, Obama would be happy to be president again, BUT, in truth, it doesn’t really to matter to him and Michelle. If he loses, he’ll make a ton of money just like the Clintons, with a foundation and his library. He’ll have to borrow planes from rich friends, but that’s no biggie. They’ll still be able to score freebies, like the Clintons and they can “purchase” some of those cool gifts from heads of state (like the gold necklace and pearls from the King of Saudi Arabia) for “reduced” appraisals as they leave the White House. He and Michelle can pretend that they’re elite for the rest of their lives and have people kowtow to them because he was an “historic” president.

    Besides, he’s almost completely destroyed our economy and put the stability of the world at risk with his agreements with the Russians, his abandonment of Israel and his show of weakness before all other world powers- so his work here is almost complete. Having made the world unstable by his foreign policy and weakening of America, we are on the precipice of a “new world order.” He must be happy.

  • Anonymous

    I love how ignorant Dems are….
    They still can’t figure out why they got their @$$ handed to them in 2010.
    They have no idea how Scott Brown did the impossible and win Ted Kennedy’s old seat.
    They still think the Tea Party is immaterial and short lived.
    Now they have no idea what this election means.

  • Silgary

    I guess when they call all Republicans Islamophobes they’ll have to include Jewish Dems from N.Y.
    Maybe he lost because there’s more Yankee fans than Mets fans in the district.
    Maybe it was the size of his penis.
    Spin it any way you want but just like 2010 there’s a lot of people who actually are concerned about where this country is heading and are blaming the peole making the decisions.

  • Anonymous

    This congressional district is scheduled to be done away with in the next election, so I wouldn’t count my chickens over Mr. Turner yet. He might just feel free enough to vote his conscience.

  • Michelle

    Denial is just a river in Eqypt to libs.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone blaming Weiner’s marriage to Huma Abedin for the loss of this congressional race should wash his mouth out with soap- that’s as lame an excuse as I’ve ever heard.

    Take a look at what your “historic” president has done to Israel. Look at the instability in the Middle East and the potential for radical Islamists taking over in Egypt and Libya and it’s impossible to spin this election enough to cover Obama’s rear end. 

    Frankly, I fear for a world war beginning because of Obama’s policies.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Wait so an overwhelming majority wanted Wiener to remain in his seat,
    but a sensible candidate managed to win over a moron and this somehow
    translates to a complete referendum on the party at large and the
    president? Wow, I guess logic is a relic now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Well lets take a look at who is running for president….  specifically president Obama, he is now crossing the country and in true Obama fashion he is repeating the same catch phrases that quickly become offensive to American ears as they want to see him accomplish something, anything to move this country forward.  Instead the president continues in his pursuit of failure and as ever he is divisive in his politics..  he has during his entire presidency presented to the American people an us vs them approach in trying to solve political differences with the other party, it is old and the only thing he has accomplished with his approach is the largest political and social divide that this country has possibly ever seen…  Congratulations are in order for the “Little King” as this is really quite a feat when you take the time to consider what he has done.  

    Now the president has pulled many of his failed ideas from the past, thrown in a few republican ideas for seasoning as he scrambles the whole mess into an omelet known as the “American Jobs Bill” that he wishes to serve up to the American people.  The problem is that he has included nothing in his plan to address the underlying problems that are preventing growth in our economy, there is nothing in his plan that will accomplish his stated goal of moving us forward.  

    Now he comes with “Pass this Bill….  Pass this Bill now!”  The little king would do well to recall the legislative process, he is the Chief Executive, although he can introduce legislation it is incumbent for congress to write the legislation that will become the final bill.  If this president thinks that he can legislate from the oval office and that his legislation should not be open to modification or revision by the congress he is sadly delusional. His current plea to the American people is for his right to do this, but again as in the past his continued chant will quickly become offensive to all except his most ardent supporters.    It is a shame that the press and the far left have created in the mind of the little king that he is just that royalty in a nation that rejected that notion some 235 years ago…

  • Anonymous

    It makes perfect sense when you realize the seats that switched were a result of sex scandals by the former office holder. In Nevada, this open seat was created when Ensign resigned. However, the former Congressman was well liked in his district.

  • Anonymous

    I sleep very well at night when I look at the current presidential candidates of the Republican party. Oh, and by the way, I pushed the like button by mistake.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    You might want to look to 1981 -1988 Tax cuts and deregulation grew an anemic economy, one that felt almost as bad as the one we are in today..

  • Anonymous

    Colby,

    You don’t know it wasn’t a referendum on larger National administration level. Do you? You could have included    known facts at this point:

    - Obama didn’t campaign for Weprein. Clinton others helped, but not the Democratic party leader
    - Turner ran on Anti-Admin policy in this heavy Democratic registered district
    - Ex Mayor Koch endorsed/campaigned for Turner citing the need to send Obama a message (Israel)
    - A centerpiece was a vote for Turner meant a vote against Obama Admin – to send a message

    - And the NYT ran a story last evening citing some voters expressing their views they’ve always voted Democratic but had to send Obama a message with their GOP vote to show their discontent

    GOP gains house seat

    Turner campaign and supporters made it a centerpiece a vote for him was a vote for a referendum

    So you’re welcome, there is some facts that you can update your post showing there is evidence it was a referendum.

  • Yukon Jack

    If 0bama was not (half) black, there would be at least seven or eight challengers. There would be a primary with the same blood-letting as one witnesses on the Republican side.

    But challenging a (half) black incompetent pretender would be RACIST, so no matter how honest, nobody, not a single Democrat wants to be suicidal.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is living in fantasy land.  He is also in a total state of denial.  The white House is already saying that the election last night had nothing to do with him.  Really?????    Just read and listen to the comments of the folks who voted.   Even Ed Koch endorsed Turner.   It’s all about YOU  Mr. President and your moronic policies that put a republilcan in that historically dem seat.

  • Anonymous

    It’s clearly an upset in the traditionally Democratic district, and already the news media have called it a “referendum on Obama.” But does that tell the whole story?

    You sure as hell don’t tell the whole story Colby! All you did was further advance all the ridiculous Democrat excuses without even making one attempt to include easily obtainable information which directly links Obama to the loss of Weiner’s seat. #biasedhack

  • Cougarman

    If Obama cared at all for the country or even the Dem party he and his administration would resign immediately and turn the country over to speaker Boehner.

  • Anonymous

    Then there’s this fact which Democrats don’t seem to understand:

    Registered voters, by a 47 percent to 41 percent spread, would rather have Republicans in charge of Congress. That’s the highest level of preference for Republican control since the question was first posed 15 years ago. At a time when the White House is fond of the mantra that an election is “a choice, not a referendum,” it appears that voters aren’t ready to choose Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over Speaker John Boehner.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62747.html

  • Anonymous

    How friggin hard would it have been for the editor of a website who rhetorically asks the question: “It’s clearly an upset in the traditionally Democratic district, and already the news media have called it a “referendum on Obama.” But does that tell the whole story?” to include easily obtainable information such as:

     If Turner wins on Tuesday it will be largely due to the incredible unpopularity of Barack
    Obama dragging his party down in the district. Obama won 55% there in 2008 but nowhas a staggeringly bad 31% approval rating, with 56% of voters disapproving of him. It’sa given that Republicans don’t like him but more shocking are his 16% approval ratingwith independents and the fact that he’s below 50% even with Democrats at 46%approving and 38% disapproving.

  • Anonymous

    How friggin hard would it have been for the editor of a website who rhetorically asks the question: “It’s clearly an upset in the traditionally Democratic district, and already the news media have called it a “referendum on Obama.” But does that tell the whole story?” to include easily obtainable information such as:

     If Turner wins on Tuesday it will be largely due to the incredible unpopularity of Barack
    Obama dragging his party down in the district. Obama won 55% there in 2008 but nowhas a staggeringly bad 31% approval rating, with 56% of voters disapproving of him. It’sa given that Republicans don’t like him but more shocking are his 16% approval ratingwith independents and the fact that he’s below 50% even with Democrats at 46%approving and 38% disapproving.

  • Anonymous

    Obama only cares about himself, but what would you expect from someone who was abandoned as a child? He’s been looking out for himself since he was a little boy because his mother and father sure as hell weren’t.

  • Anonymous

    Da Jews didn’t like Weiner’s Muslima wife! 
    Racist Jeeeeeeewwwwwwwws!
    Did you expect any other excuse from the Democrat party? It’s always racism with them (yeah, I’m smart enough to know that this would really be bigotry, but sometimes you have to dumb down your comments so the stupid Dem rubes can understand them).

  • Michelle

    Even in heavily Democratic California, President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has plummeted among voters, largely on his handling of the economy, according to a new Field Poll.
    Though Obama is strongly favored to win California in his re-election
    bid next year, the poll suggests many Democrats may vote for him only
    begrudgingly, and it is yet another indication of weakening support
    nationwide.
    “When you’re seeing vulnerability in a state like California, I think
    that really is ominous for his national standing,” Field Poll director
    Mark DiCamillo said.
    For the first time since Obama took office in 2009, less than half of California voters – 46 percent – approve of the job he is doing, just two percentage points more than disapprove, according to the poll.

  • fanofgrendel

    The “local” Democrat Jews decided to send National Obama a message, “Here’s one for selling out Isreal, you putz!”

  • fanofgrendel

    The “local” Jews decided to send a clear message to National Obama: “Here’s what you get for selling out Israel, ya putz!”

  • IDGem

    Typical.  And you forgot this part of the article?
    By a 58 percent to 31 percent margin, registered voters believe
    Democrats will do a better job of “standing up for the middle class,”
    according to a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll. 

    Haven’t these Republican debates shown you anything?  Like no pro life just pro birth.  Or let’s gladly let the oligarchy rule.I won’t believe any poll until they come around and ask me the questions which they have never done.And I’m a registered Republican.
     

  • IDGem

    You missed the fact of the mass mailing last weekend.  Or didn’t that make it on your radar?  If you are going to quote facts then maybe you ought to go for all of them???

  • Anonymous

    Whooa there, my friend…….POTUS Reagan, tho’ he did alot to deregulate, he raised taxes to deal with the soaring deficits that accompanied his original tax cuts, you may need to actually go back and study a tad-bit deeper!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurence-Glavin/100000568386394 Laurence Glavin

    Please..please “Meet the Press” “ABC’s This Week” and/or “Face the Nation”: have this Turner character on as a guest as soon as possible.  He’s another lunatic like Alan West or Christine O’Donnell.  Let the people who voted for this clown see what they’re getting!

  • Anonymous

    Colby and others here would say Bloombeerg is a racist poling group, as would be yourself for posting these results.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    EXCEPT, Clinton went out with his ego intact and his favorability high and a track record of accomplishments. Obama is destined to become a political pariah, damaged ego and all. You must remember, he thought of himself as the chosen one, the one we’d all been waiting for, the one for whom the tides will cease to rise, blah, blah, blah. That’s a lofty fall by any standards.

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