On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, SA wrote:
>> Except that in Weiner's district, the likelihood of a Republican
>> winning is approximately 0.
>
> The Republican who ran against Weiner last year got 40% of the vote. So
> a hypothetical strong third-party challenger from the left could
> definitely put a Republican in that seat.
In today's NYT is an article backing up this point from a couple of months ago:
As well as the more general point that the representative of this district will always be super-zionist, no matter who wins, and primarying can't possibly fix that. Weiner really was by far the best you could hope to get from this district.
Michael