With Scott Murphy the likely winner in NY-20, will Michael Steele be forced out as RNC chairman?

[bluestateguy]

They soooooo desperately wanted the talking point that a Ted Disco win would have provided:

"Oh, uh oh. The wheels are coming off of the Obama bus! The American people are starting to ask questions, blah, blah, blah...."

But in fact this election shows that the wheels are still very firmly attached to the Obama bus.

So will this likely Republican loss also result in Steele being thrown overboard?

[bbinacan]

1. I haven't followed this race

very closely. Have the absentee ballots been counted yet?

[Stephanie]

5. Not all

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/04/down_178_votes.php

Down 178 Votes, Tedisco Asks to Be Declared Winner
By Roy Edroso in Elections, Featured, Legal, Politics, UpstateFriday, Apr. 17 2009 @ 8:41AM

In a ballsy move, despite being down by 178 votes at last count, Republican Jim Tedisco has petitioned Dutchess County Supreme Court to declare him the winner of the NY-20 Congressional post-election. The logic escapes us, but the Hudson Register-Star says Tedisco also wants all the votes, machine or paper, re-examined, except for the hundreds of absentee votes he has challenged, which he wants to remain unopened.

The vote count that increased Scott Murphy's lead only reflects votes counted up till mid-afternoon, at which time the Republican representatives to the process left for lunch and never came back (one of them went to the Yankees' game).

At the Washington Independent David Weigel says "voters typically turn on candidates who refuse to admit defeat," but this may not be the concern of the Republicans (whom Tedisco represents not only as a candidate, but also as outgoing assembly minority leader and elder): for one thing, by drawing this thing out they decrease the time between the special election and the next official one for the seat, screwing with the presumed Democratic winner; for another, if they can tar the eventual negative result as an act of activist judge usurpation, that would add to the sense of grievance that currently animates their party nationally.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I hope Steele stays. He's a gift to the Dems.

Everytime he open his mouth he puts his foot in it.

[burning rain]

4. He has my vote for RNC Chairman, too!

:D

[burning rain]

3. Steele's pitiful.

For the Republlicans to lose in that district with their fat registration advantage, they're a joke. This leaves them with 3 of 29 New York House seats.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Is anyone stuppid enough to take the job from him?

That moron, Blackwell, is even worse.

[n2doc]

7. Come on! These are Republicans we're talking about!

They are the Stupid Professionals!