#ny09

[capitalnewyork-blog-blog]

"I think the local message is that the Democratic Party for too long has been complacent and assumed that they’re entitled to be elected. And I think the citizens, Democrats and Republicans, have had it with that. They want candidates who actually are from their districts, who know what’s really going on in their districts, who are not career politicians, and who can go into office with a fresh idea and actually clean up some of the corruption. That’s what the message is."

Councilman Dan Halloran on what the NY-9 results mean on the local level

[redistricting-blog-blog]

If Weprin is victorious in NY-9, where Democrats hold a massive 3-1 registration advantage, he'll step aside and let the seat be redistricted out of existence, thus neatly taking care of the Democrats' share of the two lost Congressional seats. But now that the Republican candidate Bob Turner is polling within six points of Weprin, upstate Democrats like newly elected Erie County Rep. Kathy Hochul (who came into office on May 24th of this year, after the Chris Lee sex scandal) and North Country Rep. Bill Owens are almost certainly starting to worry that one of them could be designated for the chopping block if the Democrats are upset in NY-9. On the other hand, upstate Republicans like freshmen Reps. Ann Marie Buerkle (Syracuse) and Richard Hanna (Utica), whose districts have been eyed for elimination, are likely imagining a once-inconceivable reprieve if Turner wins and is subsequently redistricted out.

Morgan Pehme: 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Redistricting

[redistricting-blog-blog]

In 2000, the 9th District, which takes in a number of middle-class white ethnic communities in southern Brooklyn and central Queens, gave Al Gore 67 percent of its vote. John Kerry, however, drew just 56 percent of the vote four years later, a shift that was initially seen as an anomaly caused by the political after-effects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. There was no rebound in 2008, though: Barack Obama drew just 55 percent in the district, barely better than his national average of 53 percent. The 12-point decline from Mr. Gore’s performance to Mr. Obama’s reflects one of the largest shifts against Democrats in the country; the only comparable examples are in the South or in Appalachia:

Weiner's Seat Could Be Scrambled in Redistricting - NYTimes.com