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Today is an important day for our party. We have achieved an historic victory for Mayor Mike Bloomberg, one that is as much a vindication of the last four years as it is for the Republican values that have been so key to our Mayor’s success: emphasis on personal responsibility, economic development, lowering crime and reforming our broken school system to better educate the future of the City. We should be proud of what we’ve accomplished and look forward to the hard work of governing... Read More→

Now I say all this being a relative novice compared to you all in NYC politics… The one thing the Russo, Zinberg, and Murphy campaigns all said was that they didn’t have enough money to afford polling. Now with everyone of us seeming to think those races would be decided by a few points, they ended up losing 10 pts, 30pts, and 30pts respectively, do you think more emphasis and a real effort should have been made on polling? I’m also saying this with no idea on how much it would... Read More→

Item: 2005 Elections spell bad news for Bush, Right-Wing RepublicansThink of all potential combinations of results and this will be the gist of tomorrow headlines and “analyses.” They (today’s elections) in fact mean…practically nothing for the national picture. Virginia may mean something to George Allen’s national ambitions, however. A Kilgore loss comes with a diminishment of the junior senator’s prestige. Then again, a Kaine win along with an exiting Democrat... Read More→

Item: Bloomberg Wins by 30%Decides to govern as a conservative. (I post this so when folks deride my contributions as inane, unfunny, and out of touch I’ll assume they meant this one, and emerge with my feelings intact.)  Read More →

Charlie Brown Schumer just held a press conference calling on President Bush not to pardon Libby. Hey Chuck where were you when your buddy Hillary’s husband Bubba pardoned pretty much every known felon. Lets take a look back. Some of the more controversial were drug trafficker Carlos Vignali, Susan McDougal and Marc Rich (a man that was listed on the Department of Justice Web Site as an international fugitive). Here’s the full list. ALLEN, VERLA JEAN, ALTIERE, NICHOLAS M., ALTSCHUL, BERNICE... Read More→

I’ve been watching MSNBC all day and I’m starting to get the impression that they would just love to have Democrats win the VA race. You can feel them getting the scripts ready on how there is a backlash in America and Republicans are doomed in 2006. I really hope Kilgore pulls it out and kills their lead story tomorrow.  Read More →

In NJ I think Corzine will win easily. I have family in NJ and I can tell you those people just can’t vote Republican. The old people in the state like my grandmother are still grateful for the New Deal and as she’s told me in the past. “I always voted Democrat, that’s just what we did in my day”. Great granny, keep cashing that SS check. And the rest of the people in that state hate Bush, which means they’ll vote Corzine. In VA it’s going to be close. I think it will... Read More→

This is the way the Rickster’s handicapping it for no other reason than gut feeling. Kilgore in VA.Corzine in NJ.In California – Schwarzenegger will be moderately redeemed after 2 of his 4 proposals make it through. I’m thinking either Prop 74, the teacher tenure proposition, makes it, or Prop 75, the union political campaign funding proposition, but not both. After the states’ unions spent krillions of dollars against the props, I find it virtually impossible to believe that... Read More→

Exit polls aside, anyone want to put their thoughts/predictions out there for NJ/VA? I think we all know how the mayoral race will end up, but any news from the city council front? (yes, it’s early still, but I know we’ll be talking about this all day.) Not to be a downer, but Messrs. 10 & 17, 7-8am is still too early for the buses to mobilize, the dead to vote, or for people to vote mulitple times…we’ve got good weather today too…..  Read More →

Well as I always do on Election Day I went to my local polling station and voted early in the morning before I headed to work. The most shocking thing was that as I checked in at 8:00 am I was the 10th person in my district (58th) to vote. 10th!! An hour and a half into voting and I was only number 10! If what appears to be happening in my station takes place across the rest of the city, Republicans have a good chance of stealing some seats in the council particularly Patrick, Joel and Russo. ... Read More→