With 100% of the precincts reporting (via NY1): Assembly – District 72 Adriano Espaillat (Dem) 21521 93.51% William Buran (GOP) 1493 6.49% House – District 14 Carolyn Maloney (Dem) 156902 79.47% Robert Heim (GOP) 37311 18.90% Isaiah Matos (Lib) 3232 1.64% Congratulations, gentlemen, on fighting the good fight.
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Obama, Shmobama. Here are some presidential vote totals likely to be of interest to Libertarians (with 76% reporting): Bob Barr 403,665 Chuck Baldwin 143,353 Ron Paul 14,234 NOTA 4,263 Charles Jay 2,066 Tom Stevens 592 George Phillies 363
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In New York State, it is illegal to promote a candidate within 100 feet of a voting booth. Yet here is our junior senator electioneering for the Democrats inside the polling station, about 5 feet from the nearest booth:
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Given that the odds of a New Yorker casting the deciding vote for president are 1.9 billion to 1, I tend not to take voting too seriously. Even if Bob Barr somehow triples the results of the last Libertarian presidential candidate, that would only give him about 1% of the electorate, so I’m even that
It’s still a financially Herculean task to compete against the two major parties’ multi-million dollar campaigns to get their candidate into a job that pays only $400,000 per year. And one which they must resign from after 8 years anyway. Simple math doesn’t justify such an insanely expensive job campaign. But it makes sense when one adds up what the interest groups behind those campaign dollars have to gain.
Chances are if you are reading this your state is pretty much decided. Yahoo lists only 4 battleground states with a total of 24 electoral votes. After a long swing toward the Republicans, the pendulum has started swinging back towards the Democrats and it now appears it will get burried on the left in this
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It boggles the mind that anyone who has read Ayn Rand would think that a federal bailout for spendthrift state governments is a good idea, much less dare to invoke her in arguing for such a bailout. Yet here we have the cognitive dissonance of Governor David Paterson’s testimony before Congress yesterday: Paterson cited Rand,
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Some of you know that I doubt the claim that credit markets “seized up”. I don’t even know what seized up means. It wasn’t defined in any of my economics texts and I haven’t heard anything other than a high pitched squeal when I have asked the press that used the term to define it.
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Tonight’s Bailout Facts Town Hall is shaping up to be THE NYC political event of this cycle. The Town Hall will be at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 Second Avenue (near 9th St.) NYC. at 7p. You can get more details at www.libertarian.meetup.com/324. Andrew Tulloch , Director of incumbent 14th District Congresswoman
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We, the people, are the market. Not OPEC, the Dow, Goldman Sachs, or much less the Federal Reserve. The market is you and I with our dollars in our hands. It’s third graders spending their allowance on a favorite soda, let alone hassling their parents to purchase the latest X-Box game. Anyone buying anything they