Author: Jerry Skurnik

One assertion from insurgents and the press about New York politics is that our hyper-technical election laws required candidates to get at least twice or three times the number of required signatures to get on the ballot.

In last week’s New York Post, Michael Barone, the conservative pundit, who fewer & fewer gullible people still consider a political analyst, proclaims that the Democrats will lose the Congress this November.   

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/jerry_skurnik/how_to_beat_an_incumbent_move_to_flushing.html

On Thursday, July 15, Party designating petitions were filed at the New York City Board of Elections.

Every four years, various political pundits overhype that year’s contests for governor. Thinking readers won’t think the choice of the chief executive of large states are important enough, these experts must explain to us that who wins an election for governor can be crucial in determining who wins the next Presidential election.

This year's edition of Prime News, Prime New York's annual report on the previous year's elections has now been mailed.

For those of you who do not receive it in the mail, you can download a PDF of it at our website – www.primeny.com

Please do not use the comments section to point out the typo on page one regarding the Citywide results in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. The Westside’s own Alan Flacks have already done so.

The New York Times decided to give Rush Limbaugh’s biographer, Zev Chafets a free advertisement on their Op-Ed page, where Chafets declare Limbaugh is the ‘most obvious explanation …for Republican success in 2010.

The New York Observer Politicker, in an item with the title – The Problem with AGs,  quotes Carolyn Ryan, the New York Times Deputy metro editor for government and politics, in comments relating to the Richard Blumenthal controversy, as saying –

Last August, the New York Times published a story that pointed out that little noticed proposal then being considered could force New York to change the date of our Primary Elections.

I have previously written here about the overblown attention paid to by people who should know better about the various Cable News yakkers. I have pointed out here few people ever watch any of these blowhards.

Here’s a report from Brian Stelter of the New York Times about the US-Canada Olympic hockey game. Imagine how Fox News ratings could improve if they showed the World Series or the NFL instead of Beck and O’Reilly? 

http://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/9495258378

An average of 8.22 million watched the game on MSNBC, per Nielsen. 8.23 million watched election night 2008 on MSNBC