Live blogging the election
Just a reminder that the In Box will be up and running all day and all evening, with important developments.
I’ll be at Doug Hoffman’s HQ beginning around 7pm. Mike Benjamin (WRVO) and Jon Alexander (WNBZ) will be helping us out with coverage from Doheny HQ in Watertown.
We’ll be updating as many of the races around the North Country, New York and the country as we can.
So keep checking back through the evening and be sure to add your comments as well. What are you seeing and hearing and thinking?
And before we get to that moment, be sure to vote if there’s a primary in your area. This is an election where every single vote really could count.
From the Lazio-Palladino contest to Doheny-Hoffman, no one knows how these contests will turn out. So don’t let your voice go unheard.
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Not interested. Not voting because don’t belong to a party. Will get results tomorrow morning.
I’m interested in the outcome but like Pete I don’t belong to a party so I don’t get to vote in the primary. In a system where independent voters are usually the deciding factor our voices don’t “get heard” until November.
Too bad.
Hi, Brian. I ducked in today to see what I could pick up about the Democratic candidates for AG of NY. Have heard so little about them and received only an expensive little color card from Brodsky or is it Brodky? Feel kind of dumb not knowing who these guys are or why I should vote for one rather than another. In such a case I guess the right thing is to abstain, but that’s so limp.
Any thoughts on how turnout might help/hurt Doheny/Hoffman and Paladino/Lazio?
I have now read a little more about the AG canidates, the only ones in question for me today. I have decided against Brodsky because he was one of the first to oppose the Muslim center two and a half blocks from Ground Zero. For an AG candidate, that’s a matter of law, of constitution, and he’s wrong on it, as such. Should have kept mouth shut.
I had thought that he, Brodsky, might be a fighter for law on Wall Street but that began to sound class-warefare-ish, and I am really hating the re-emergence of that word in this country, as it is applied to the current question of allowing Bush tax cuts for All, including the rich, to expire. To let them expire is being called class warfare. Well, it make the point, doesn’t it, that we have greater “class” distinction in this country right now than we did ten years or twenty years ago.
But in the end I don’t think that kind of politics is right in an Attorney General, and I’ll vote, probably, for the guy the Times likes, Schneiderman is it? Though maybe for the guy the Post likes, who teaches business ethics and worked under the former governor, Spitzer, when he was AG. What’s a poor dumb voter to do?
Miswrote there back a little, on Bush tax cuts. Should have said To let them expire for the rich, but not for people with incomes below $250K and $200K, is being called class warfare. If we use that term for the reaction to the widening income gap, shall we also use it for the policies that widened the gap? I suggest we avoid the term and keep thinking of our country as, certainly not classless, but one of somewhat fair prospects for all. An illusion to maintain.
By the way, does anybody besides yrs trly wonder why the press is letting commentators get away with saying these tax cuts’ expiring will hurt small business? I don’t quite get it. We are talking about personal income tax, I think. Small businesses do their accounting and investing in such ways as to control their income for taxes, showing income more or less as they want to, juggling various factors. I am not aware of changes, anyhow, in corporate tax rates. And I am aware that when anybody shows an income of a quarter of a million dollars on IRS 1040, there is a lot of income that has been sheltered, shaded, made to go away and hide, before that figure is settled on. So come on, people, let’s not whine. One thing we learned with Reagan’s “supply-side” economics was that when you reduce the taxes on the rich, they do not therefore devote themselves to stimulating the economy with investments and purchases. That didn’t happen then and it must not be happening now, or the economy would be booming. Spoken like a blogger, as ignorant as the best of them.