NY-23: Incredible East-West schism developing in district

A lot has been made tonight — by me as well as many others — about the tea party vs. GOP dynamic in the NY-23 race.

But so far tonight the real division is geographic. Clinton and Franklin Counties are producing huge majorities for Doug Hoffman.

Meanwhile, St. Lawrence and Jefferson Counties are landsliding for Matt Doheny.

That’s not ideology, that’s home-turf stuff.

Though it’s likely that Hoffman still encounters bruised feelings in the west because of his treatment of Dede Scozzafava, the popular Republican Assemblywoman who he forced out of last year’s special election.

Doheny now leads…

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