By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Anthony Weiner might have exposed more than himself in resigning from Congress: A Republican political novice shockingly won his old job late Tuesday, showing the 2012 election might be rougher terrain for President Barack Obama than one might have originally thought.

Republican Bob Turner, a retired broadcasting executive, defeated Democratic assemblyman David Weprin Tuesday in a special election to decide who will represent the Brooklyn and Queens-area district in Congress. The position had been vacant since Weiner, a 7-term Democratic congressman, resigned June 16, after a sex scandal made him a national punchline.

The win is particularly shocking, as New York’s 9th Congressional District -- which has a large Jewish population and a 3-1 registration edge for Democrats -- had been represented by a Democrat in Congress for nearly the past hundred years.

Turner captured 53 percent of the vote, compared to Weprin’s  47 percent, with about 80 percent of the precincts counted. The district had gone Democrat in every election since 1923.