[lbo-talk] Weiner unhid!

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Jul 27 00:24:50 PDT 2011


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:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/nyregion/race-to-replace-weiner-in-house-may-turn-on-israel-policy.html

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



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