Tuesday, September 13, 2011

HOT DIGGITY DOG!...WEINER'S SEAT GOES TO REPUBLICAN!...

GOP wins in NY House race, seen as Obama rebuke

NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that started as a contest to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner after he resigned in a sexting scandal but became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic policies.

Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin on Tuesday in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June.

With more than 80 percent of precincts reporting, Turner had 54 percent of the vote to Weprin's 46 percent in unofficial results.
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Rep. Peter King, a Republican from a neighboring district, called the outcome "a terrible defeat" for the Obama administration and a dismaying harbinger for the president's party. Other Democrats up for reelection next year "have to be scared stiff," he said.

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