Nassau Leg: Close majority portends '09 suspense
The Nassau Legislature, with its razor-close 10-9 Democratic edge, promises some high-stakes election competition as the New Year unfolds -- with the potential to echo in some ways the dymamic of the state Senate.
Some of Nassau’s battered Republicans are talking up prospects of a turnover there. The GOP is ending another bleak year, one in which it lost the county enrollment edge and majority leadership in the state Senate.
Optimists suppose the faltering economy and resulting pressure on Democratic County Executive Thomas Suozzi could work in their favor.
Both sides’ partisans cite several potential game-changers including: the 14th district where Democrat David Mejias won (according to the election-night numbers) by only 222 votes in 2007; the Fifth District where Joseph Scannell hung on by 1021, and the Seventh, where Democrat Jeff Toback, at left, won by 696. There may be others as well.
Still, Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs declares: “There’s no substantial rationale for Republicans to argue that they should take the legislature.”
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The odds favor Jay Jacobs being wrong. Since Nassau, New York and the US are all in firm control of the Democrats, they have no one to blame for anything that is their fault - or isn't their fault. Thus, it seems logical that the GOP will win seats on every level. This is what typically happens in a midterm election. I would expect it to happen in Nassau, too. The voters always like to punish the party in power.