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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y.
Doug Hoffman campaign spokesman Rob Ryan just said the off-year
congressional election in this sprawling upstate
district represents a political “revolution.”
“People have just stepped up to the plate,” Ryan said, describing the surge of grassroots volunteer support for Hoffamn. “They’re sick and tired of politics as usual. They’re sick and tired of the culture of corruption in Washington. They’re sick and tired of sending all their money to the IRS.”
Tonight, the Hoffman campaign is preparing to celebrate at the historic Hotel Saranac, where there are seven TV satellite trucks in the parking lot. Reporters from the New York Times, Fox News, CNN and other national media are on hand. The polls close at 9 p.m.
Most observers expect a Hoffman win tonight. During an afternoon press conference, Hoffman campaign manager Dan Tripp said his own sample of key precincts in the 23rd District show a “positive” trend.
“Things are looking pretty good right now,” Tripp said, but added that the Hoffman campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation would “be pushing like we’re 10 points behind until 9 o’clock.”
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Bo| 11.3.09 @ 11:13PM
A revolution that gives a Republican seat to the Dems?
Gina| 11.4.09 @ 12:09AM
Dede was a liberal Dem, too; she was just Dem-lite.
She's no Repub, good riddance to Scuzzyfava.
MattSwartz| 11.3.09 @ 11:34PM
That is what will happen, but the seat didn't get ceded to the Dems tonight.
It was ceded to the Dems when the NYGOP picked their "moderate" candidate. Their Scozzafava endorsement told the voters that the left was the middle, and the voters took that assertion at face value in the end. If the GOP had picked Hoffman and the CP had picked someone further right than he, then Hoffman would be the "moderate" in the race, and he would have been a moderate winner, too.
Dick| 11.4.09 @ 1:06AM
Matt,
You are as dumb as they come. Those of us from NY-23 know when we are being sold an extremist who does not live in the district and clearly does not have the foggiest idea what is important up here. Scozzafava has been an able local pol for a while. I don't care very much for her stands on social issues, but she is solid on guns and economic issues. It is jerks like you who gave the seat to the Dems for the first time since the Civil War--come back when you grow up and learn what politics are about.
Shattuck| 11.4.09 @ 6:32AM
Amen to your assessment of Hoffman.
What happens when a clueless candidate with a huge sack of out-of-state money tells you not to ask him any unscripted questions? You vote for the guy who knows what's going on in the district and won't be beholden to outside interests.
All the national fervor over Hoffman ignored the most crucial facts: the people who elect the representative of NY-23 live in NY-23, and they want someone who will represent NY-23 in Washington. No amount of would-be hijackers parachuting in from Ohio and Maryland could alter the dynamics that really matter in this or any other regional election. In fact, if you need an answer for why the seat went Democratic for the first time in living memory, you can't do much better than this: Hoffman became the candidate of the carpetbaggers.
anne can | 11.4.09 @ 9:37AM
Let me get this right...Hoffman catches and passes everyone in the polls until the election when absentee ballots kick in. Did Obama help out to prevent fraud as Hoffman requested earlier when absentee ballot fraud was already found? I hope someone is doing an autopsy on the ballots.
I bet it turns out that Hoffman won.
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dick| 11.4.09 @ 3:22PM
There is no evidence of fraud with the absentee ballots, which, given where they were from, were going to support Owens. Do you have any evidence, or are you just engaged in random speculation?
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we election in this sprawling upstate district represents a political "revolution." canada goose another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O'Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as "devastating.