NY-20: Jimmy T. Bags 163 Votes but Still on Bottom

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Things just got ugly for Republican Jim Tedisco: The latest numbers from New York State show him picking up just 163 votes in his "stronghold" of Saratoga County, meaning that he still trails by 86 votes overall. Tedisco's camp was hoping Saratoga would put him over the top, so this is a harsh blow - none of the remaining counties were as favorable to the Republican on election night as Saratoga.
Meanwhile, Dem Scott Murphy just got a very favorable ruling from a judge overseeing the case:


Judge James Brands just ruled that most of the over 1,200 contested absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress were objected to improperly based on discrepancies in their applications. This means many more ballots will be counted.
Tedisco's team has been following the Norm Coleman playbook almost to the letter, challenging ridiculous numbers of absentee ballots (including, as you may know, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's). Seeing as Murphy's attorneys argued in favor of counting many of these challenged ballots, this augurs well.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/4787/ny20-jimmy-t-bags-163-votes-but-still-on-bottom

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