Inside Opinion » New York District 23 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Sat, 25 May 2013 01:29:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A good night for the GOP http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/11/03/a-good-night-for-the-gop/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2009/11/03/a-good-night-for-the-gop/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:50:28 +0000 Michael Allen http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=661 If you watch MSNBC or listen to “progressive” talk radio, you’re going to be hearing a lot about “New York 23″ for the next month. New York District 23 has elected a Republican Congressman for nearly 100 years in a row, but now it’s Blue. In last night’s off-year elections, Democrats took advantage of GOP chaos (the GOP candidate withdrew) to add one more vote to their ample congressional majority. Winning New York 23 is truly a feather in the Democrats’ cap. 

But then there were the Virginia and New Jersey elections.

Virginia is a state we have been told is …

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