Why The Republican Victory In NY-9 Doesn’t Mean What Republicans Want It To

Nate Silver sums it up. A few points:

• You can’t always blame the candidate

• Unusual demographics and local issues drove the NY-9 election

• Democrats won 7 out of 9 special elections in the run-up to the 2010 election

• Margin of victory is more predictive than the result

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.