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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

REVENGE OF THE JEWS DEM SEAT TURNS IN NYC

With his outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke at the polls Tuesday, when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic congressional district that has not been in Republican hands since the 1920s.

Bob Turner, the winner, cast the election as a referendum on Obama’s stewardship of the economy and, in the state’s 9th Congressional District, which has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters, the president’s position on Israel.

Turner, 70, a retired cable television executive who has never served in elective office, defeated Democratic State Assemblyman David Weprin, 55, who has two decades of public service experience, to fill the seat left vacant when Anthony Weiner (D) resigned in disgrace in June after more than 12 years in the House.

The Washington Post / Drudge Report

It's noteworthy:

David Weprin is an Orthodox Jew and Bob Turner is not Jewish.

Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 3-to-1 in the district


Election results:
Republican   Bob Turner        32,403        53%
Democratic   David Weprin    27,599        46%
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