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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (112570)	9/10/2011 3:36:49 PM
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To: MJ who wrote (112570)	9/10/2011 4:26:14 PM
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By DEVLIN BARRETT The resignation of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was supposed to bring relief to his fellow Democrats, who were tired of answering questions about the scandal around sexually charged messages he sent to women online. Instead, the contest to fill Mr. Weiner's seat has brought a headache for the party and a potential rebuke to President Barack Obama from an overwhelmingly Democratic part of New York City. A poll released Friday showed the Democratic candidate trailing by six points, suggesting there is a good chance for a once-unthinkable upset in Tuesday's special election. Some 50% of likely voters supported Republican Bob Turner and 44% backed David Weprin in the poll, by the Siena Research Institute. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points. Bob Turner For Congress GOP candidate Bob Turner The contest is one of two out-of-season U.S. House elections to be held Tuesday. The other is in Nevada, where Republican Mark Amodei is favored over Democrat Kate Marshall in a Republican-leaning district. The sitting congressman there left to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. In New York, a Democratic defeat would be the latest of several signals of deep unhappiness with Mr. Obama. Mr. Turner has tried to turn the contest into a referendum on the president, and the Siena poll found that Mr. Obama is viewed unfavorably. But a defeat wouldn't necessarily have a lasting effect in the parts of Brooklyn and Queens that Mr. Weiner represented, as both parties expect the district to be eliminated in next year's redrawing of congressional lines. Still, Democrats are eager to avoid a defeat and are pumping more than a half-million dollars into a late flurry of television ads to support Mr. Weprin. State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, publicly backed Mr. Turner this week and urged constituents to vote for him to "send a message'' of their displeasure with the president.