Miss the excitement of 2008? Well, it is not coming back. Instead, tomorrow, there will be a Special Election in some obscure upstate New York congressional district, between people named “Republican Jim Tedisco” and “Democrat Scott Murphy.” Are you feeling some HOPE twitch in your pants? Yes you can! Who will win?!
Have we written about this already? Let’s search, uh, our own website. Oh, well look at that. Yes, we’ve written about it three (3) times, including two posts by your editor, who has no memory of writing these things. (Ha, this one is pretty long!)
Anyway, baseball-statistics blogger Nate Silver has something about the Democrat maybe being ahead, which would be important (?) to the Democrats, to keep this district, because why not, but also devastating to the Republicans, if they can’t take this seat which was held by a popular Democratic congresslady until David Paterson plucked her from obscurity to be the new Senator Hillary Clinton.
We will perhaps pay attention to this, tomorrow, with Special Election Coverage! Michael Steele will lose his RNC chiefdom whether or not the Republican guy loses this 20th congressional district seat from New York. Exciting!
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I’ll just wait for Drudge to red-text this bore-fest tomorrow evening.
Jim teh Disco: he will survive. Regardless.
I hear you can see Canada from Upstate NY.
Tedisco was replaced by Tepunk back in the 80s. God knows what tefuckingkids are up to these days.
Nate Silver… Nate Silver… isn’t he that fortune teller who totally fucked up the Oscar predictions?
Show me Nate Silver’s brackets and then I’ll give a fuck.
Nate Silver predicts that Viola Davis will be the New Congresslady of America.
Oh God. Nate Silver still has a blog? The stock market is still going down? Bachmann is still a sitting congressperson doing crazy rants on cable teevee? That Coleman-Franken election is still being fought out?
WHY WON’T 2008 JUST DIE ALREADY?
The correct answer is John McCain. /David Gregory
Hmmm. It’s a toss-up really. Tedisco looks like a resurrected Henry Kissinger after being given a healthy dose of Botox, while Murphy looks like the bastard offspring of John Tesh and Jim Brickman. Decisions, decisions.
Murphy’s doomed. Pat Boone is campaigning for Tedisco which will sew up the youth vote for sure (“Crazy little Mama come’a knockin … knockin at my front door door door ….”) An speaking of crazy, Michele Bachmann’s campaign committee sent $1000 to Tedisco
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/30/714594/-NY-20:-The-War-of-Surrogates
With a lineup like this I expect Tedisco to airdrop Rush Limbaugh into the district.
I was hoping Pinky Tuscadero would take it.
Go freedom
New York’s 20th c.d. shares one tooth. Repug is a shoo-in.
Generic Tedisco name pun goes here
[re=276727]Serolf Divad[/re]: [re=276727]Serolf Divad[/re]: Nate Silver… Nate Silver… isn’t he that fortune teller who totally fucked up the Oscar predictions?
No, I think he was the actor from the West Wing who played a ruthless campaign strategist.
Didn’t he die a couple of weeks ago?
Why is he still writing stuff?
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