Giulinai defeat bad news for Spano
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- January
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 The odds of Nicholas Spano trying to regain his state Senate seat this year – and of the Republicans holding onto their narrow majority in that house – got a little longer Tuesday with Rudy Giuliani’s defeat in the Florida presidential primary.
  Spano, the Yonkes Republican who lost to Democrat Andrew Stewart-Cousins last year after barely beating her two years earlier, was counting on Giuliani being at the top of the Republican ticket this year to lure Republicans out to vote.
 The likelihood now is Democrat Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic presidential candidate, encouraging throngs of Democrats to vote. Barack Obama would also be a big draw for the Dems. John McCain, while popular among New York Republicans, would hardly be the draw that Giuliani would have been.
 The Republicans have controlled the state Senate for every year but one since 1938. But their edge now is only 32-29, with a vacancy to be filled in a competitive race in a district near the Canadian border next month. ÂÂÂ
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First of all, I think it’s a bit premature
to “anoint” Hillary…err…Billary.
Secondly, does this mean Nick Spano wouldn’t
run again only because he might lose? You
mean his “ideals” won’t push him forward to
carry on the good fight? That was sarcastic.
The Spanos are only about the Spanos, and
always have been.
Giulinai … who is this candidate anyway?
This has got to be one of the more laughable attempts at political prognostication attempted in this blog.
Let me second the notion that reporters should not be anointing Hillary president. With Edwards dropping out, I think that Obama has an even better chance of winning. Despite what we are being told to do by the media.
what the reporter should not be doing is rendering an opinion on whether Nick Spano has a better chance of
winning with Rudy than with Mc Cain..that remains to
be seen..it depends on lots of things not just who
is nominated..It also depends on Elliot Spitzers
standing come election time…In any event it is
way too early to assess the prospects of nick
spano based on Rudy dropping out
Ethan-you know what the good fight is-its a phrased used by conservatives as an excuse for losing-Nick Spano delivered for the people of his district-more than I can say for Cousins-he is the voice the people of the 35th Senate district need in Albany-because we dont have one now-sounds to me like your a Spano basher-wonder what you have ever done politically-if you using the good fight line-obviously winning is something that has eluded you.
Desi, You were pretty good on those congas.
But beating the drums for Nick Spano is another matter.
I don’t like the Spanos, and I don’t like Cousins, either.
It’s too bad the choices are so poor. But that’s the
way it is throughout politics these days. The lesser of
two evils is not a pleasant choice to have to make.