So its being reported this morning that the machine count has been redone and that Tedisco has either reduced Murphy's lead to 6 or is himself leading by 12. We are now entering into what my father calls "Manic-Depressive candidate stage."
Each day different counties will report in with self correcting errors that will cause temporary rises and falls in vote totals for each candidate. These temporary shifts in fortune do not matter, do not determine the victor and unless they begin to consistently bee in favor of one candidate are useless to determining the outcome of the election.
Here is tap's page from last night on this is the one from this morning. But there is coleman style fun and nonsence coming from Tedisco. More after the fold.
Tedisco has decided that his 12 vote lead last night for a couple of hours is a solid victory. Because remember this is NY-20 a republican district a Democrat can only win if he is cheating!!!!!!!!!!!
This was supposed to be a momentum building so the Republicans could repeat 1994 in 2010 we aren't playing to the meme. It's not fair stomp, stomp! Jimmy doesn't want to be minority leader in the NY State Assembly anymore he wants to go back to Albany and be ignored. He wants to go to Washington and be ignored.
Then he will be in a position to be the leading hero and the first one over the line for the Republican Resurgence.
So Mr. Tedisco has decided to follow Mr. Coleman's example and declare victory early here's the quote
"I'll continue to serve and will be in the leadership role until Monday, when there will be a vote for new leadership. Then I'll be working on my transition and serving my Assembly district for the next few weeks," Tedisco told the Saratogian. "Then I believe we'll be off to Congress."
He has decided to resign his assembly seat, if he doesn't win the recount he is now out of a job, that carries a certain amount of arrogance.
Republicans still think that soldiers vote for them en masse Obama proved this wrong, I saw the military ballots that were opened in November they were 50-50 Obama won absentees in NY and it is my supposition that Murphy will do the same Upstate. The PVA is Republican but suburban and rural NY is changing. Rural NY is being destroyed by big agri-business and the Suburbs are changing too. The commuter culture still exists but the hatred for the big city machine that was Democratic. New Yorks history shapes its politics, the city machine created a reaction in the suburbs, in Suffolk and Putnam counties in the 1970s a registered democrat could not find public employment, could not expect to receive local contracts for his small business and in some case could not even expect to have his garbage picked up on time.
This has changed, townships that were under Republican control for 40, 50 or 60 years have changed hands. Republican patronage jobs which are used to motivate the machine are being eliminated and the NY GOP is scared.
Help fund Murphy's legal fight here and punish Tedisco for his arrogance.
I will follow-up on this and yesterdays diary which outlines the NY recount here as and when new news comes up. Here's to hoping that we put Mr. Tedisco on the job market now that he has resigned from the Assembly.