Life on the fringe: Final NYS counts

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 I AM POSTING THIS NEWSDAY ARTICLE FOR THOSE POLITICAL JUNKIES THAT CAN'T GET ENOUGH ELECTION DAY INFORMATION....THE FINAL NYS STATE WIDE RESULTS LINK AND SOME ASTUTE POLITICAL COMMENTARY BELOW.....ENJOY........

Monday December 20, 2010 2:51 PM By Dan Janison

Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa

Certified election results, as posted this month on the state election Web site, show the Libertarian Party, with Warren Redlich for governor, fell just shy of 50,000 votes needed for automatic ballot status, with 48,386.
Carl Paladino's Taxpayers line got a pathetic 24,572. Flamboyant Paladino guru Roger Stone's other, competing client, Kristin Davis, drew 20,429 - merely half of Rent Is 2 Damn High Party Jimmy McMillan's tally.
Given his thin record of results on Election Day, Stone might have crowed a bit prematurely about Redlich's falling short, especially after some remarkably vicious and fabricated mudslinging meant to destroy Redlich.
Minor parties that made the cut: Conservative (232,264), Working Families (154,847), Independence (146,646) and Green (59,928).
Remember when Paladino's camp was threatening to destroy the Conservative leadership if it didn't get behind him?
As Springsteen put it in "Born in the USA" "They're still there, he's all gone..."