Tonight's Special Election in Queens, NY: a referendum on Obama?

[Clio the Leo]

Well of COURSE it is!!! :)

Jose Peralta (Dem) 3737 61.92%
Hiram Monserrate (Inp) 1889 31.30%
Robert Beltrani (GOP) 409 6.78%

http://www.ny1.com/content/115318/story

Go back and read that again! The INDEPENDENT candidate got MORE votes than the GOP candidate! ..... Granted, it's QUEENS, the bluest heart of "fake America," (at least that's what that Palin woman tells me) but a win is a win.

And if by some freak of nature it had gone against us, the news would be heralding it as a GOP victory for the rest of the week.

[jillan]

1. I bet there won't be one word about this in the news.

[rug]

4. It's front page news.

http://www.nydailynews.com/index.html

[jillan]

15. I meant on the cable news shows. you can be sure fux won't be reporting on it.

[TankLV]

19. There isn't. Only can read it here on DU.

Local dailies don't count...

[rug]

2. Of course not. Monserrate was convicted of assaulting a woman.

The state Senate ejected him last month. This was a special election to fill the seat. Monserrate and Peralta are both Democrats but Monserrate was disgraced.

[stevenleser]

5. That makes it even more devastating that Monserrate got more votes than the Republican n/t

[Me.]

10. He Kicked The Pubs In The Teeth Several Months Back

We had a real circus going on here after he and another dem switched parties in a power play and turned the legislature over to the Cons, then the dems wooed him back and regained power. The Cons were furious and the dems when they had the chance kicked his traitorous behind to the curb.

[rug]

11. The Republicans didn't even run a candidate in 2008.

[Cha]

3. Yeah, they can't have it only one way..if

the gop gotta it.

[Forkboy]

6. When Coakley lost many said it wasn't a referendum on Obama, something I agree with.

But now that a Dem wins suddenly it IS a referendum on Obama. Claim it was a referendum when there's a win, claim it wasn't when there's a loss. That's a nice gig if you can get it.

K&R for the news itself, but I don't agree with the take. Monserrate was a joke and the GOP candidate was, well, the GOP candidate (nothing else needs to be added to that lol).

[Clio the Leo]

9. And one of those people was Scott Brown....

... for which I have always given him credit. (Shady bugger, that one.)

As for "now that a Dem wins suddenly it IS a referendum on Obama..." .... sweetie, that was a JOKE. Hence the ---> :)

[Forkboy]

16. Shady bugger is an understatement.

And sorry I missed the joke. My humor chip is my other head, not the one I'm using tonight. My apologies. :)

[Clio the Leo]

18. here's the hot tip....

... I am ALWAYS joking. (except when I'm not)

[David in Canada]

7. Kind of sad...

It is kind of sad that almost one in three voters voted for a person that was convicted of domestic violence, well known and "friendly" or not.

Frankly, I would have preferred to see Monserrate finish dead last with the bulk of his support going to the Democrat, of course.

Considering Monserrate's support of the deal with the GOP caucus, did he actually siphon votes from the Republican?

[rpannier]

12. Gotta agree that it is disturbing that Monserrate got that many votes

Makes you wonder if many of the voters didn't come from the Simpsons "League of Uninformed Voters"

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Hey! This is a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Queens where...

Monserrat still has some oomph after being in Albany for a while. The Democrats threw him out and he thought he could keep his seat as an independant, a la Lieberman. Republicans are throwaway candidates in neighborhoods like this, and the results have nothing at all to do with anything national, or even with other parts of Queens.

[harkadog]

13. What do Democratic candidates normally get in that district?

On edit just checked. The Democratic candidate got 95.9% of the vote in 2008.

[rug]

14. Monserrate got 100% in 2008. He was unopposed.

[harkadog]

17. Correct, just checked

I counted the votes Monserrate got on the Working Family's line against him in my earlier post. Thanks.

[KingFlorez]

20. this is hugh

This is obviously a ploy by the voters to make Democrats slack off and get hit with a hugh GOP victory in November.