Election Update: NY-20, NY-23
It now appears that no clarity on the NY-23 Republican primary will come until next Tuesday at the earliest. That’s when all the absentee ballots will be opened and counted across the district.
According to the Hoffman campaign at least 1,900 have been returned so far.
Conservative Party chair Mike Long told the Watertown Daily Times that he expects Doug Hoffman to remain in the race as a third-party candidate, but admits that he too hasn’t spoken with Hoffman since election night.
The party chairman said Mr. Hoffman likely won’t ask for his advice, adding he hasn’t talked to the candidate since the primary ended.
But Mr. Long said his candidate could win a three-way race among himself, Mr. Doheny and Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, despite trailing both in fundraising.
“You know what his resource is? People believe in him,” Mr. Long said. “That’s a pretty powerful resource.”
One wrinkle in this narrative is that Republican turnout in Franklin County — Hoffman’s political base — was really low. That’s according to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.
Normally, this kind of muddle wouldn’t be a big deal. In this case, every week counts, if Republicans (or Conservatives or tax partiers) want a real shot at Democrat Bill Owens.
Meanwhile, in the NY-20 race between Republican Chris Gibson and Democrat Scott Murphy, there’s a bit of an ad war going on, according to the Glens Falls Post Star.
Gibson’s camp claims that Murphy’s ads are misleading about the jobs picture, while Murphy’s team claims that attack ads running against him are being funded by a secretive group that wants to eliminate or “privatize” social security.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise notes that a poll from Siena is due out later this morning that will give us a much clearer snapshot of the Murphy-Gibson contest.
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Here’s a news flash for you.
The House of Representatives will likely go Republican with or without NY23.
The message to the local GOP leadership is this: a moderate GOP candidate can’t win.
If Hoffman / Doheny end up splitting the GOP vote, so be it. Get us a pro-life, fiscally conservative candidate next time.
totally agree with jdm. conservstives should not compromise on life. we cannot fall into the same old trap any republican is better than a democrat
Bill king is right: it is an old trap that any republican is better then the democrat. In reality, any democrat is better than any republican. Republicans have no business talking about fiscal responsibility after taking a surplus from Clinton and leaving the largest deficit in US history for Obama. Get real, you turkeys.
I am happy that conservatives are backing candidates and policies that a small minority favors. Means the Democrats will do far better than expected. Gifts to the Democrats in NY-23, like those in Delaware and Nevada, are appreciated. The people will reject conservative nut-cases.
Oh, and the deficit is declining this eyar, for those who aren’t paying attention. And it would decline more if Republicans would let go of the tax giveaways to the rich that Bush and the Republicans installed.
Drc wake up. keep beleiveing in one party is right and the other is wrong. you’re being played when the real powers control both parties. the agenda has been the same for a long time. time for the people to learn some truth
The republicans squandered a huge surplus and left Obama a huge deficit and a gigantic debt. Obama came in with a $1.3 T deficit and a debt that was tripled by Bush and the so called conservatives.
It is not sufficient to go blaming the effects of republican trickle down voo-doo economics including tax cuts that were not offset or paid for, Medicare Part D, and two wars that were inherited by Bush’s successor President Obama on some vague hidden masters of the financial system: Republicans MUST take formal and public redponibility for their financial sins, as well as the blame for the wars THEY started. The current mess is NOT President Obama’s doing and he is blameless here. Rebublicans need to be responsible for a change.