NY-20 special election

Just when the Republican Party is skidding along to its lowest level of power since the 1970s, here comes Scott Rasmussen, the only pollster who matters:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41 percent would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 38 percent would choose the Democrat. Thirty-one percent of conservative Democrats [...]

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has finally conceded defeat to Democrat Scott Murphy. This seems like a good time to revisit what Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said about winning NY-20 in his first speech to Republicans after being elected.
That win will send a powerful signal to the [...]

Man, defeated New York 20th Congressional District GOP candidate Jim Tedisco is bold:
Jim Tedisco submitted a petition to the Dutchess County Supreme Court Thursday asking the judge to declare him the winner of the extremely close special election race, despite the numbers currently being in favor of his opponent, Democrat Scott Murphy.
This is a nice [...]

I don’t know how seriously to take Republican candidate Jim Tedisco’s ballot challenges in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election when his campaign is pulling stunts like this as absentees are combed over:
When Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s absentee ballot came up in the queue, the poll watchers for Jim Tedisco objected to it, saying the [...]

Ben Smith clips an interview that noted Republican primary voter repellent Rudy Giuliani gave to New York radio.
The measures that [President Obama]’s taken don’t seem to me to be the measures that would be needed to an economy that’s in a serious recession… In a situation like this, you don’t spend more money, you don’t [...]

The National Republican Congressional Committee’s latest appeal on the New York 20th Congressional District House race, after 12 hours of fairly noncommittal, positive statements of the election contest:
Don’t let the Democrats steal this election. Less than 80 ballots separate Republican Jim Tedisco and his Democrat opponent. We cannot afford to allow the Democrats to steal [...]

Two weeks ago, I talked to independent Republican groups and people working on the special congressional election in New York’s 20th Congressional District and found that hundreds of thousands of dollars in negative ads directed at Democrat Scott Murphy were backfiring. Today, Fred LeBrun of the Albany Times Union makes the same case.
While both parties [...]

After getting bounced from the ballot in the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District, former Libertarian candidate Eric Sundwall has endorsed Democrat Scott Murphy.
I will be voting for Scott Murphy on Tuesday. While we disagree on some important issues, I find him to be a man of honor, a good family man and [...]

The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco — who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against Democrat Scott Murphy — isn’t denouncing a new ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee that shows a minute’s worth of terrorist mugshots while playing an audio clip of Murphy saying he [...]

The new Siena Research poll of the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District gives Democrat Scott Murphy a four point lead over Republican Jim Tedisco. Tedisco had led by four points two weeks ago and 12 points two weeks before that.
Democratic candidate Scott Murphy – 47 (+6)
Republican candidate Jim Tedisco – 43 (-2)
Libertarian [...]