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It's Strange That None Of The Congressional Handicappers Factor In Candidate Quality
2024 Is A Very Bad Year For Candidate Quality First some horserace stats: Nate Silver’s latest polling average shows Kamala ahead 49.2%...
Howie Klein
Sep 4, 20244 min read
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Yesterday's Primaries In New York, Where Democrats Picked 3 Incredibly Flawed Candidates
Plus Trump's Kiss Of Death Shows Up In Utah, South Carolina & Colorado Yesterday, New York Democratic primary voters, given a choice...
Howie Klein
Jun 26, 20245 min read
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New York Congressional Maps Finalized— After All That Expensive Sturm Und Drang Not Much Changed
After stalling for a few days, MAGA Mike finally swore Tom Suozzi into Congress this week. After the ceremony, Suozzi delivered an...
Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20243 min read
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NY Congressional Maps Still Up In The Air-- Ignores Extreme Gerrymanders in North Carolina & Florida
IRC Tries To Give A Leg Up To A Conservative Democrat In NY-22 New York’s bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) released...
Howie Klein
Feb 16, 20244 min read
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Central New York Needs A New, Less Volatile Congressman-- Time To Dump Brandon Williams
Syracuse-based NY-22 is New York’s ultimate swing district, depending what the map-drawer is trying to accomplish. The most recent map...
Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20233 min read
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Expect A Red To Blue Flip In Central New York-- Unless The DCCC Screws It Up Again
Sarah Klee Hood Can Beat Williams, Mannion Is Way Too Conservative If you follow the political press, they’re always talking about the...
Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20233 min read
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Can NY Redraw Its Congressional Map Fast Enough To Counter North Carolina's Coming Gerrymander?
With North Carolina’s new right-wing Supreme Court signaling they’re on board, the Republican-controlled state legislature is about to...
Howie Klein
Jul 14, 20234 min read
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Good News From Upstate New York
The Return Of Mondaire Jones? Tomorrow is the first day of the Hoffman v. New York State Independent Redistricting Commission litigation,...
Howie Klein
Jun 7, 20233 min read
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Another Xenophobic, Racist GOP Scam— This One In The Hudson Valley
Republican members of Congress from New York, like Marc Molinaro and Brandon Williams, have been fear-mongering in their districts about...
Howie Klein
May 21, 20233 min read
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Do The Freedom Caucus Nuts Want To Force A Default-- Or Are They Just Playing Poker Against America?
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Sinema is “more and more confident” of a deal to avert a US default. She told them that she’s...
Howie Klein
May 20, 20233 min read
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New York Is Going To Be A Key Congressional Battleground Next Year-- Some Rumblings Already
Nicole Malliotakis Has A Primary Opponent Yesterday, I was looking to see if anyone had officially declared they are running for the...
Howie Klein
Mar 5, 20233 min read
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Last Night’s Most Important Congressional Result Brought The GOP’s Worst Nightmare Into Stark Focus
New York State Primary Results... Meh There were a lot of important primaries in New York and Florida yesterday, but in many ways the...
Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20225 min read
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Political Update In Central New York
The Central New York congressional district centered around Syracuse has been one of the swingy-est districts in the country. It has...
Howie Klein
Mar 26, 20223 min read
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Another Transactional Conservative Democrat Just Joined Trump's Party-- Will Brindisi Be Next?
Technically part of the DC exurbs, Berkeley County, West Virginia, the second most populated county in the state, has pretty much always...
Howie Klein
Dec 15, 20203 min read
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Could McCarthy Become Speaker In January? Not Likely, But...
The rematch results for the NY-22 seat is shrouded in secrecy and confusion as the worst remaining Blue Dog in Congress, Anthony Brindisi...
Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20203 min read
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