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Article: Republican Good News Bad for Obama, Dems in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois.(Barack Obama and the Democratic Party)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- February 9, 2009
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Byline: Michael Barone
By Michael Barone (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/index.html), Thomas Jefferson Street blog
In the 20th District of New York, vacated by the appointment of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican nominee Jim Tedisco leads (http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0209/Republican_holds_early_lead_for_Gillibrand_seat.html?showall) Democratic nominee Scott Murphy, 50 percent to 29 percent, according to Tedisco's pollster. That's not bad, but it's certainly not dispositive. Tedisco benefits from high name identification; he's the Assembly minority leader (and it's quite a small minority (http://www.ncsl.org/statevote/StateVote2008.htm): ...