Off-Year Specials Often Provide No Tea Leaves

• By Nathan L. Gonzales and Josh Kurtz
• Roll Call Staff
• March 31, 2009, Midnight

Special elections this early in the cycle are generally poor predictors of a party’s future electoral success or failure in the next general. But it doesn’t matter who wins today’s special election in New York’s 20th district, breathless over-analysis will rule the day.