After hearing about the Malcolm Smith corruption case, I had think how absurd and delusional can one be about running for office. 1) Malcolm Smith could have become a Republican prior to Election Day in 2012. He could have dropped off his change of registration form on Election Day, and nobody would have ever … Continue reading
In New York State, you have to register in a political party to be eligible to vote in primaries. You can’t vote in a Democratic primary, for example, if you are not a registered Democrat. The same is true with Republicans and all minor parties. That said, in most parts … Continue reading
“Calling yourself a liberal or conservative, is kind of like saying, I’ve made up my mind, don’t confuse me with the facts.” — Governor Nelson Rockefeller People sometimes like to point out to me on Twitter that I re-tweet and bring in information from a variety of perspectives. Most of … Continue reading
I figured as I had the GIS data I would put together some Google Maps for your reference. Click View Larger Map to see on Google Map and/or to download the KMZ file for use in Google Earth. The Albany EDs and City of Albany Wards are from the Albany … Continue reading
Conventional wisdom has it that people vote right down the ticket on election day, at least where there are competitive races. Yet, in pratice this is not true as these below maps show. For the sake of comparison, in any municipality where there was no opposing candidates for a particular … Continue reading
To make these maps, I downloaded the redistricting data from the LATFOR website, used the Municipal County Subdivision Results file, manipulated it in OpenOffice, then joined it against TIGER/Line, exported to KML then used a script to colorize the KML file. I will post the script later this week for … Continue reading
The Race Crunched. ED DEM DEM % REP REP % CON CON % WF WF % ICE ICE % Write-In Over Vote Blank Blank Percent Total Votes Sandy Total Bush Total Sandy % Sandy Net Votes Berne 1 88 37.13% 89 37.55% 34 14.35% 6 2.53% 20 8.44% 0 0 … Continue reading
It was the comedian and sometimes political comenator that once P.J O’Rouke who described the Democratic Party as being a “Bunch of Fun Suckers”. Democrats generally advocate policies that are anti-fun, usually to save small children or the whales. They want new restrictions on what people can do — how … Continue reading
