Watertown Daily Times: “It’s all over” for Doug Hoffman
The Watertown Daily Times has canvassed election officials across the 23rd district and finds that Matt Doheny’s lead has expanded beyond his apparent election-night victory.
He now leads Doug Hoffman by 769 votes. With only 804 votes remaining to be counted, “Mr. Hoffman would need more than 98 percent of the votes,” according to the article.
The Times describes Doheny as “the presumptive winner” of the fiercely competitive Republican primary, which pitted the GOP establishment against the new tea party movement.
Hoffman’s apparent defeat was a rare setback for the tea party movement, which helped push gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino to victory.
We have reached out to the Hoffman campaign asking to interview Doug Hoffman personally about his plans as soon as possible.
The questions are pretty simple. Will he challenge these results? Will he run as a third-party Conservative?
We’ll let you know what we hear.
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Who cares? If the NY-23 is anything like NY-20 and NY-24 where 25-33% of Republicans are supporting the Democratic incumbents, Bill Owen will be re-elected.
Doheny can’t win. It will take another election cycle for the GOP to get it. Maybe.
“A rare set back for the Tea Party movement”??? Holy smokes, the TP never had a candidate, so to speak, till last year and non won. This year a few have won and now any loss is a “rare setback”??? I think you’re kind of reaching here Brian.
No, Bret. On this primary night, the tea party pushed Carl Paladino over Rick Lazio and Christine O’Donnell over Mike Castle. Both were epic wins.
The tea party scored similar big wins this year in Nevada, Utah, Alaska, Kentucky, just to name a few.
–Brian, NCPR
Sorry Brian, but “rare” isn’t the word I would have used. The so called TP candidates lost in AZ and other states too, did they not?