NY-20 Special Election Today

The voters of the 20th Congressional District in New York State will be choosing the successor to Kirsten Gillibrand who left that seat to replae Hillary Clinton in the Senate. This largely Republican district is turning into quite a shooting match and the rookie president is pushing hard for a Dem win:

Who’s going to ignore an e-mail from “President Barack Obama”?

He’s hitting in-boxes Monday night with a reminder to Democrats in New York’s 20th Congressional District to get out and vote Tuesday for businessman Scott Murphy.

The high-level get-out-the-vote reminder is paid for by Organizing for America, the successor to the president’s grassroots organization, now a project of the Democratic National Committee. The return address is at barackobama.com.

Murphy is facing state legislator Jim Tedisco in the race to fill a Republican-leaning seat that came open when Kirsten Gillibrand was named to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The race is being covered as a test of Obama’s political swat because it’s the first major election since his inauguration.

The polls are close, but experts in such things are giving a slight edge to the Republican. His win would be a blow to the administration given that it's the first election since the rookie took office.