Ex-NRCC chair says GOP lost NY special election

[brooklynite]

Source: USA Today

The hand counts and courtroom squabbles may be dragging on in the New York District 20 race, but at least one prominent Republican says the election is done and won -- for the Democrats.

Former Rep. Tom Davis, once the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told the Washington Times that Democrat Scott Murphy has defeated Republican Jim Tedisco, though at least 1,550 ballots from the March 31 election are still left to be counted.

"We lost the special election in New York," said Davis, a seven-term congressman from Virginia who stepped down from office last year. "It's gone."

The latest tally from the New York State Board of Elections shows Murphy up by 273 votes. The two men are vying to replace Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who filled the Senate seat that Hillary Rodham Clinton left to become Secretary of State.

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/04/exnrcc-chair-says-gop-lost-ny-special-election.html

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Tom Davis is an expert at losing Republican House seats - trust him, Jim.

[Old and In the Way]

1. The more they lose, the more voters they lose.

Nobody likes to identify with a loser...except the diehard base. Being sore losers turns off more voters. Becoming a Party of Rush cultists which is clearly aligning itself with a bizarre, anti-social agenda; well, that's a recipe for generational irrelevance or, if we are lucky, a complete implosion that will end the viability of the Republican brand as a national political Party.

[rocktivity]

2. Franken and Murprhy gives us how many dem Senate seats--51?

:shrug:
rocktivity

[rdmtimp]

3. Murphy's in the House, not Senate nt

[TheWraith]

5. 59 in the Senate once Franken is seated.

Of course as noted Murphy is in the house, giving us 257 to 178 there.

[Danascot]

4. As a resident of NY20

This is great news. Being represented by that hack Tedisco would have been depressing. I hope the numbers hold, and that it doesn't get dragged out for months like Franken-Coleman.

Here's a recent article from a local paper:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=791895

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Well as Tom Davis famously said last year. . .

"...the Republican brand is in the trash can...if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/post_38.html

:evilgrin: