Disgraced WEINER's seat could go REPUBLICAN.

[Danno 1,228]

Close Race To Succeed Weiner’s District Seat

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A new poll shows it will be a tight race for former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner’s 9th congressional district seat.

A Siena Poll released Wednesday shows that Democrat David Weprin leads Republican Robert Turner 48 to 42 percent.

The district, which covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens, has never elected a Republican.

The poll also looked at the influence of candidate endorsements by politicians and newspapers.

It found that about twice as many voters say they are more likely to support a candidate who is endorsed by Senator Charles Schumer, Governor Andrew Cuomo or former Mayor Ed Koch.

“One of the people whose endorsement really does matter a lot is former Mayor Ed Koch,” said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg. “Ed Koch, a Democrat, has endorsed Republican Turner in this race and voters like Ed Koch and say his endorsement matters.”

But people surveyed said that endorsements by three of New York City’s daily newspapers wouldn’t help in their decision.

Greenberg says the key to who wins this election will be voter turnout.

“Which campaign will do a better job of identifying their voters and getting their voters to the polls,” said Greenberg. ”Because as we know, special elections tend to have a very low voter turnout. Probably fewer than 20 percent of the registered voters in the 9th congressional district will actually go to the polls and vote.”

By 2 to 1, voters also wanted their representative to vote for a debt ceiling law

and more than 3/4 said they did not like the direction the country is taking.

The poll of 501 likely voters was conducted August 3-8 by phone and had a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

Turner is a retired media executive who ran unsuccessfully against Weiner in the general election last year.

Assemblyman Weprin is a former New York City councilman who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to be comptroller in 2009.

He was elected to the Assembly in 2010 after serving in the City Council for eight years.

Weiner resigned in June in the wake of a Twitter sexting scandal.

The special election on September 13 will also include six Assembly districts with vacancies that need to be filled.

Those are in Oneida County, Erie County, Brooklyn, Manhattan and two in Queens.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/10/poll-close-race-to-succeed-weiners-district-seat/

[Ban Hammer 13,498]

Disgraced WEINER's seat could go REPUBLICAN

oh what people can make outta that.

[sly_wolf 199]

Disgraced WEINER's seat could go REPUBLICAN

oh what people can make outta that.

Yes, they need weiners!

[Danno 1,228]

All the weiner jokes aside

Is this a foretelling of the mood of the country and what might be in store for Obama?

After all this is a solidly Democrat area.

[sly_wolf 199]

All the weiner jokes aside

Is this a foretelling of the mood of the country and what might be in store for Obama?

After all this is a solidly Democrat area.

Dunno, but I hear weiner and boenner do work great together.

[Captain Oates 911]

Dunno, but I hear weiner and boenner do work great together.

Of course weiner means wine-er in german and is pronounced VY-NER

whereas: Wien is the capital of Austria and is pronounced VEEN

The Bratwurst from Vienna is therefore spelled Viener and is pronounced VEENER as distinct from this guy who's name is prounced VY-ner as in wine

Boehner is pronounced somewhere between Burner and ####### and only Bayner nearer Berlin

Its amazing that a country of immigrants like the USA has no idea how to pronounce European names

They say eye - rak but they don't say A-merica. They say A-dolf but not A-ttack

English pedants should turn off CNN and listen to BBC radio 4 online especially when a plane is landing 'momentarily' which means a 'touch-and-go' in the rest of the english speaking world

Edited September 8, 2011 by Alan the Red

[Danno 1,228]

Of course weiner means wine-er in german and is pronounced VY-NER

whereas: Wien is the capital of Austria and is pronounced VEEN

The Bratwurst from Vienna is therefore spelled Viener and is pronounced VEENER as distinct from this guy who's name is prounced VY-ner as in wine

Boehner is pronounced somewhere between Burner and ####### and only Bayner nearer Berlin

Its amazing that a country of immigrants like the USA has no idea how to pronounce European names

They say eye - rak but they don't say A-merica. They say A-dolf but not A-ttack

English pedants should turn off CNN and listen to BBC radio 4 online especially when a plane is landing 'momentarily' which means a 'touch-and-go' in the rest of the english speaking world

Thanks for those on-topic remarks.

[Captain Oates 911]

Thanks for those on-topic remarks.

Weiner (WINER) is in the subject title so I am not straying too far - especially as the mis-pronunciation of his name was included as a double - entendre in the posts immediately preceeding

I would rather have a Congessman who was an exposer, rather than a dog-fight promoter for instance - they are allowed to work on and make millions.

I find that exposers are usually 'up front' with me

Edited September 8, 2011 by Alan the Red

[Danno 1,228]

Weiner (WINER) is in the subject title so I am not straying too far - especially as the mis-pronunciation of his name was included as a double - entendre in the posts immediately preceeding

I would rather have a Congessman who was an exposer, rather than a dog-fight promoter for instance - they are allowed to work on and make millions.

I find that exposers are usually 'up front' with me

I'll have to take your word for it as I have only known of one person in my life who was known to do such a thing.

[Captain Oates 911]

I'll have to take your word for it as I have only known of one person in my life who was known to do such a thing.

I know of an exposer who jumped out of the bushes and whipped open his mac and did it

The woman said "No thanks I don't smoke"

He was instantly cured