# REP wins DEM district in NY

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**Created:** [September 14, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rep-wins-dem-district-in-ny/216505 "2011-09-14T07:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rep-wins-dem-district-in-ny/216505/1 "2011-09-14T07:09:31Z")

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[CNN LINK](http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/14/new.york.special.election/index.html)

This mean anything?

> In a huge upset that few would have predicted just months ago, a Republican won a special election in a heavily Democratic district in New York for the seat of former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rep-wins-dem-district-in-ny/216505/2 "2011-09-14T07:26:03Z")

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> At his victory party, Turner stood on a stage with Israeli and American flags behind him – a reminder of one of the central issues in the race: U.S. policies toward Israel.  
> “We lit one candle today, and there’s going to be a bonfire pretty soon,” Turner said in his victory speech, just after midnight.  
> The district, which covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens, is one of the strongest Jewish districts in the nation.

That makes me angry. He got elected as a US Congressman, not a US/Israeli congressman.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rep-wins-dem-district-in-ny/216505/3 "2011-09-14T17:05:25Z")

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Not really. People are pissed off at incumbents in general right now, particularly Weiner related ones. Also there seems to be a bipartisan trend that junk pics on internet = seat changing hands…

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**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rep-wins-dem-district-in-ny/216505/4 "2011-09-15T07:08:23Z")

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People will always think more of special elections than they really should IMO.

Like the one our area just had and everyone was saying “Oh shit! A Dem took a Rep seat!”