Gee if I realized Hevesi's son (they one who got the seat via a deal which was the subject of Ray Harding's guilty plea) had an opponent, I would have endorsed him.

It might have even made a difference.

I'm not sure the Republicans noticed they had a candidate either. All that effort to pick up a seat in Queens and they targeted the wrong race. Normally I'd laugh out loud, but I fear the laugh is on us.

David Brooks, in the Election Day edition of the Times attempts to reassure his liberal readers that they really don’t have to worry that a Republican Congress will be as conservative as they fear.

One reason the Brooks points to is –

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/opinion/02brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

It's 5:00am. It's the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November: so even a grade school student should know that it's all about elections today. All over the country we are going to witness what is called the early “mid-term” elections. This is when a new president is in the middle of his first term, and voters get a chance to express their views in terms of the direction the new president is taking the country. History shows that for the new president's party the congressional results are generally disappointing in mid-term elections.

I’ve got a busy day, so I hustled down to the polls at 6 am. Voting was no problem, although I was a bit confused. I figured that you filled in the oval below the candidate’s name, but the instructions said to fill in the ballot above or next to the name, so I had to ask about it. One of the sad realizations I have come to is that most votes on Election Day don’t matter, because most elections have been engineered out of existence. Even a vote for President doesn’t matter much unless you live in a swing state, and most votes for Congress or legislature don’t matter unless you live in a swing district. But this year you have a bunch of statewide races where a vote actually does matter. All the elections in which votes actually matter, other than Mayor.

I have two comments on the new voting system. The bad news is that on the new sheets, the elections that they don’t want to be real elections remain hidden at the bottom of the page – Congress, State Assembly, State Senate. So fewer people will vote. To add to the discouragement, they are under the judges, for which the Republicans and Democrats put up the same choice, and which I think people shouldn’t be voting for anyway. The good news is that the new system makes it very easy to vote for a write in candidate. Before, I believe, one had to take a lot of extra time and ask for a separate ballot. Now it takes no time at all. Had I known about this, I would certainly have had something to say about it. There is now an alternative to voting for the one “real” candidate in a non-election, or a token candidate who did not campaign. Given that only special interests come out to vote in legislative primaries, a write in campaign on Election Day may as (un) likely to unseat – or at least wake up—an incumbent on Election Day as any other method, while getting around the ballot access nonsense.

A comprehensive guide to exactly when you should slit your wrists Your Comprehensive Guide To The 2010 Elections: Print It Out And Keep It Near You For The Next Two D www.tnr.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/business/media/01fox.html

The Fox Business Network focused on what it called “The War on Business” all last week, but on Tuesday its coverage was decidedly more focused — with a series of reports about a California ballot initiative that its parent company, the News Corporation, had spent $1.3 million to defeat.

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Yet in its expanded coverage of the issue, Fox did not disclose the News Corporation’s donation to a group working to defeat Proposition 24.

I did a post-primary election column last month that drew many inane comments from some of the anonymous jackasses who love to peregrinate these NYC blogs, essentially to torment those who are strong enough to put their thoughts in writing; and brave enough to have their views/opinions published. The thread was somewhat disconcerting, given what I think is the overall objective of this site: to educate the public politically. After viewing the official results released by the Board of Elections recently, I have decided to revisit two of the races on which I commented.