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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 04:15 PM
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Will there be an upset in today's special Congressional election?
there's an election today to fill Robert Wexler's former seat in the House. The district is heavily dem and should be an easy retention. but in the current political climate (and this is FL) all bets are off.

Wexler thinks there will be an upset. Hope he's wrong.

U.S. House race to test GOP's upset theory

The GOP challenger in today's special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler says he's banking on public disdain for President Barack Obama's health care bill and low congressional approval ratings to deliver an upset to his Democratic opponent, widely seen as the front-runner. The contest between Democratic state Sen. Ted Deutch and Republican Ed Lynch will be the country's first U.S. House race of 2010. Wexler, a seven-term Democrat from Boca Raton, resigned in January to lead a Middle East think tank. He was hugely popular in District 19, which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties and has more than twice as many registered Democrats than Republican — 234,000 to about 111,000.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/us-house-race-in-florida-to-test-gops-theory-on-upsets/1086976
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GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:01 PM
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1. What kind of voting machines do they use there? And will a republican count the votes?
If so the Dem better have a landslide of votes.
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scarletlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:30 PM
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2. We now have a paper ballot that is fed into an optical scanner
I havent heard any early results--there are three people in the race, republican, democrat & independent (he may be a teabagger & if so will peel of republican votes) The republican has been trying to scare the old folks about medicare cuts due to the new health bill. Most of the people down here (elderly dems) are pretty sharp so I have home the democrat will win.
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