NY09 & NV02 Special Election Results

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Capping three weeks of natural disasters and remembering 9/11, GOP businessman (and creator of the Jerry Springer Show) Robert Turner yesterday defeated Democratic State Assemblyman David Weprin by 54-46% in a special election to replace the disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner in New York's District 9. It was the first time a Republican has held the Queens/Brooklyn seat -- heavily-populated by Orthodox Jews and slated for extinction after redistricting -- in nearly a century. Candidates for this election were chosen by party leaders, as facilitated by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

And in Nevada, GOP State Chair Mark Amodei defeated Nevada State Treasurer Kate Marshall by 58-36% to replace former Rep. Dean Heller (R) in NV02. Heller had been appointed to the Senate last spring to replace disgraced Republican John Ensign. This was the first special election in Nevada since that state joined the Union in 1864. Marshall had been left by the Democratic Party and Harry Reid to fend for herself in the heretofore GOP district, and, consequently, Marshall lost even the Democratic-leaning parts of the district.

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