NY Democrat Denied Victory:

From Breitbard and the Asso0ciated Press:
After a frenzied, bruising special election, a New York congressional race that became linked to President Barack Obama's economic recovery efforts won't be decided for at least two more weeks.
Democrat Scott Murphy led Republican Jim Tedisco by a scant 65 votes out of more than 154,000 cast Tuesday.
After the count of machine votes in 610 voting precincts spread over the mostly rural, 10-county district, the unofficial count was 77,344 for Murphy to 77,279 for Tedisco. That puts the focus on the more than 10,000 absentee ballots mailed to voters who are registered in the district but were unable to vote in person on Tuesday.
It can be a laborious process to count all the paper ballots and those being mailed from overseas aren't due in New York until April 13. A lawsuit filed by state Republicans Tuesday night required all ballots to be impounded to ensure accuracy. It's not an unusual step in close elections.
Of the ballots mailed out, nearly 6,000 were returned by Tuesday but most had not yet been counted. . . .
"To even be competitive in a district like that, I think says a lot," press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One as Obama traveled to London. . . .
Republicans were also optimistic, claiming that their polling showed an advantage of about 1,100 absentee ballots sent to registered Republicans, but that couldn't be independently verified.
"I believe, when the smoke clears, we'll have won a tremendous victory," Tedisco said.
Noting a dismal 2008 election cycle that saw three Republicans ousted from New York's congressional delegation, Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, looked for the positive in Tedisco's showing.
"For the first time in a long time, a Republican candidate went toe-to-toe with a Democrat in a hard-fought battle over independent voters," Sessions said.