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ew fire island. talk about a biohazard!

*rob*

Republicans Take Unprecedented Lead in Poll on Midterm Election

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Republicans hold an unprecedented lead of 10 percentage points over Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections, indicating potentially “significant gains” for the party in Congress, according to a new Gallup poll.
Fifty-one percent of the registered voters surveyed by Princeton, New Jersey-based Gallup Inc. preferred a Republican congressional candidate, while 41 percent favored a Democrat.
This gap is the Republicans’ largest in a series of polls this year, all of which have shown them leading Democrats by margins larger than their previous record 5 percentage-point differences in June 2002 and July 1994. In both years, Republicans gained seats in the House; in 1994, they reclaimed control of the chamber.
The poll “underscores the fast-evolving conventional wisdom that the GOP is poised to make significant gains in this fall’s midterm congressional elections,” wrote Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor-in-chief.
Republicans have taken a 25-point lead over Democrats on enthusiasm about voting, according to the survey. “Republicans are now twice as likely as Democrats to be ‘very’ enthusiastic about voting, and now hold — by one point — the largest such advantage of the year,” Newport wrote.

you should be fine, wasder. most of the storm should be here thursday night thru Saturday morning. it should be past by midday on Saturday.

Houses in prime areas all over the country are pretty stable. Just like people single out brownstone Brooklyn, one can single out Nob Hill or Pacific Heights in San Francisco. The houses reguarlary go for at or above ask because these are places people want to live and are willing to pay a premium for them. We can also single huge sections of this city with pretty sizable losses in values.

Housing prices remaining flat for a long period of time is essentially the same as a decline, BUT it isn’t necessarily a bad thing depending on what the rest of the economy is doing.