It’s been 90 years since a Republican last won in New York’s 9th Congressional District, but thanks to the failed presidency of Barack Obama, Bob Turner won in a heavily Democrat district where Republicans in the past stood no chance of winning. I said this once before, I’ll say it again. The Republicans greatest asset is Barack Obama. It was fairly close, but not that close as Turner defeated Democrat David Weprin 53-47 with over 75% of precincts reporting as of this writing.

To add icing on the cake, Turner is a staunch “Tea Party” conservative Republican! HA! HA! HA! LMAO!!! See what happens when you attack Americans that believe in the principles of the Constitution? Go ahead, keep calling the Tea Party extremists, astroturf, etc… instead of talking about the issues and your records.

via the Washington Post:

With the outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke Tuesday when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic district that has not been in GOP hands since the 1920s.

Bob Turner, the winner, cast the election as a referendum on Obama’s stewardship of the economy and, in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, which has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters, the president’s position on Israel…

The GOP pulled ahead by linking the Democrat candidate to Obama and his handling of the economy…

National Democrats poured more than $500,000 into a last-ditch effort to save the seat and deployed former president Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) to try to mobilize voters…

Turner spent the final days of his campaign blasting Obama on the economy and on his perceived lack of support for Israel. Democrats worry that the apparent drag that the president had on Weprin could be repeated and amplified nationwide during the 2012 elections.

“Make no mistake about it, the albatross around Weprin’s neck is named Obama, and Democrats who value honesty will tell you privately that the president’s 37 percent approval rating in the district is making it difficult for Weprin to win a race that in almost any other time would be a slam-dunk,” Stuart Rothenberg, an independent analyst and editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, wrote Tuesday.

I said it once, I’ll say it again. Landslide 2012. It could happen!