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Any other newspaper put this race on the front page? View high resolution

Any other newspaper put this race on the front page?

The only picture on Rep. Bob Turner’s congressional website is of him with David Weprin, the Democrat he ran against, and Eric Ulrich, a Republican Councilman who considered running for the seat. View high resolution

The only picture on Rep. Bob Turner’s congressional website is of him with David Weprin, the Democrat he ran against, and Eric Ulrich, a Republican Councilman who considered running for the seat.

Dov Hikind, a Democratic Assemblyman, speaking at Republican Rick Perry’s press conference in Manhattan today. Republican Rep. Bob Turner is in the background. View high resolution

Dov Hikind, a Democratic Assemblyman, speaking at Republican Rick Perry’s press conference in Manhattan today. Republican Rep. Bob Turner is in the background.

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Given the bias inherent in these types of surveys, in some ways a Democratic internal poll showing the race within single digits is a more impressive result for Mr. Turner than his own poll, which had showed the race tied.
Nate Silver on NY-9

New York Times backs Weprin, Slaps Koch

The New York Times endorsement in the NY-9 race pushes back on former Mayor Ed Koch, who succeeded in making this, for a little while, a referendum on President Obama’s policies toward Israel.

But ultimately, it was Republican Bob Turner’s fiscal conservatism that, not surprisingly, sunk him with the Times edit board.
Mr. Turner argues that the federal budget needs to be cut by as much as a third. He also wants to lower taxes, especially on capital gains. He insists that that would not mean reducing benefits for those on Medicare and Social Security. That would take a magician, not a businessman.

If Mr. Turner gets his way, it would be impossible to spare anybody who relies on the government for benefits or to keep the air clean or their food safe.

Getting the Times endorsement was a necessary piece for Democrat David Weprin’s campaign, which was burdened by high expectations against an under-rated, two-time candidate in Turner.

(Turner gave Rep. Weiner a run for his money in 2010, a fact lost on many when they sized up this race a few months later. Also feeding the unrealistic notion that Turner would be easy to defeat, was the fact that he wasn’t the candidate Republicans were rallying around until the last minute.) 

The real question now is how impactful will the Times endorsement be, compared to say, the Daily News or the New York Post, in NY-9, the second most Republican-leaning district in the city (behind only NY-13, which is actually represented by a Republican).