{"id":2389,"date":"2010-07-19T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:48:22","slug":"hoffman-losing-fundraising-race-in-ny-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/19\/hoffman-losing-fundraising-race-in-ny-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman losing fundraising race in NY-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the usual no-fundraising-is-not-all-that-matters-in-politics caveat, it&#8217;s revealing to look at the latest campaign finance disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>First, political newcomer Matt Doheny is mounting a very serious campaign with serious momentum.\u00a0 He convinced GOP leaders in almost all of the district&#8217;s counties to back his candidacy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100718\/NEWS02\/307189956\">Now he leads incumbent Democrat Bill Owens in cash-on-hand<\/a>, $691,205 to $568,928 (although Owens led Doheny in money raised for the election cycle by about $180,000).<\/p>\n<p>Second, questions about the viability of Consevative party candidate Doug Hoffman will continue, as he raised just under $83,000 for the period.\u00a0 That put Hoffman on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/18\/AR2010071802679_pf.html\">Washington Post&#8217;s list of fundraising losers<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Doug Hoffman:<\/em> Remember him? Apparently donors don&#8217;t either.  Hoffman, who became a national story when he drove Republican nominee  Dede Scozzafava out of the November 2009 special election riding a surge  of national conservative support, isn&#8217;t generating that same sort of  excitement in his re-run race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoffman has crafted himself a movement conservative, lock-step with the national figures who supported him last year.<\/p>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s NY-23 race vying for attention with every other House race in the nation, the biggest question in this campaign remains will Hoffman fade?\u00a0 That would leave Doheny in the opportunistic position of a one-on-one against Owens with a big GOP enrollment advantage behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the usual no-fundraising-is-not-all-that-matters-in-politics caveat, it&#8217;s revealing to look at the latest campaign finance disclosures. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}