Bob Turner Wins Anthony Weiner's House Seat - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Sean Pohle on 15 Sep 11This story is newsworthy. It affects many in the republican party and in politics as well. This stroy fills the qualities of celebrity, importance, and timeliness. Celebrity because this person (Bob Turner) is very well talked about, Importance because it effects all republicans, and Timeliness because it happened two days ago.
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A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York City last represented by Anthony D. Weiner.
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The Republican, Bob Turner, a retired cable television executive, defeated Assemblyman David I. Weprin, the scion of a prominent Democratic family in Queens, in a nationally watched special election.