I have heard much ado today about NY-23 being won by a democrat for the first time since the “Civil War”. Here is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi parroting this talking point.
CNN got into the game on it’s website saying:
National Democrats, smarting over gubernatorial losses in New Jersey and Virginia, seized on the win, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine dubbing it “perhaps the most consequential race of the night.”
“This race turned out to be the worst of all possible worlds for Republicans as not only did the Democrat, Bill Owens, win a seat that Democrats have not held in more than 100 years, but what occurred in New York has exposed a war within the Republican Party that will not soon end,” said Kaine.
This seems as if it would be a big blow to the Republican party to forfiet a seat that it has held since the Civil War. Problem is according to Wikipedia the seat was last held by Democrats from January 3, 1979 up until January 3, 1993. I was only 17 years old in 1992. Sure I was a snot-nosed little punk that thought he owned the world, but I sure don’t remember a “civil war” going on in our country. I know there are some older Red State members here who have a better grasp of history than I do, so maybe one of you could enlighten me as to the “civil war” that happened around 1992 A.D. that I seemed to have missed.
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Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
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The Area hasn't been represented by a Democrat since the Civil war
scarlos (Diary) Wednesday, November 4th at 4:26PM EST (link)the 23rd used to be based in a different location, (Albany I think).
This specific area was previously the 24th or 25th I think
Socialism is Oligarchy in disguise
That may be true...
discerningconservative (Diary) Wednesday, November 4th at 6:30PM EST (link)I am not familiar with how upstate New York districts have been drawn over the years since the Civil War. The statement that I keep hearing is that the “seat” (which means the 23rd Congressional District of New York) has not been held by a Democrat since the Civil War. This is simply not true.
Yes a war was fought and the winner is
SteveLA (Diary) Monday, November 23rd at 11:46PM EST (link)The winner in the NY 23?
The notion that primaries to select who should represent the Republican party in each election are a good thing, make that a darn good thing.
The looser in NY 23?
The idiots of the NY Republican party establishment who selected a Liberal masquerading as a Republican.
More Winners
The good people of NY 23 who get to have a primary in the fall of 2010 to select who they want to run as a Republican to unseat yet another Liar Democrat.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
I hadn't even started drinking in '92
thatsright (Diary) Monday, November 23rd at 11:56PM EST (link)Two years behind you DC and I don’t remember it either.
Then again, this is the same Nancy Pelosi that seemingly slept through 2001-2008 when she got all scared about people slinging Nazi references at tea parties.
Which part is worse, the part about there being maybe a handful of such references at the tea parties this summer or the part about her forgetting the countless thousands levied on W, is up to the individual.
Count me solidly in column B.
Russ Cote
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