Fat Lady Warming Up For Tedisco

Saratoga County has come in, and Republican Jim Tedisco is still behind Democrat Scott Murphy by 86 votes.  This total appears to include both military and overseas ballots.  Unless Tedisco has done a substantially better job than Murphy objecting to improperly filed absentee ballots, or unless the remaining ballots in other counties are from pro-Tedisco precincts, it looks like his is going to lose this nailbiter.

As I've said before, whether Tedisco wins or loses is of little importance in the big picture.  The fact that Tedisco is in a nailbiter in the first place, in a district that the GOP won by over ten points the last time it was open (in 1998, which was not a great year for the GOP by any stretch), against a political novice, tells you that the GOP has not yet begun to recover -- at least not in the Northeast.

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