{"id":2396,"date":"2010-07-20T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:47:52","slug":"hoffman-releases-in-house-poll-showing-big-lead-over-doheny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/20\/hoffman-releases-in-house-poll-showing-big-lead-over-doheny\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman releases in-house poll showing big lead over Doheny"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a bruising primary for Conservative-Republican Doug Hoffman, the Tea Party favorite who last year forced Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the NY-23 special election.<\/p>\n

His Republican primary opponent, Matt Doheny, has scooped up endorsements across the sprawling district — and he’s out-fundraised Hoffman by wide margins.<\/p>\n

(Doheny is expected to pick up more endorsements tomorrow in Franklin County.)<\/p>\n

The Washington Post went so far as to put Hoffman on its national list of fundraising “losers”<\/a> for pocketing less than $100,000 in donations — less than one fifth of Doheny’s haul.<\/p>\n

Now the Hoffman team is fighting back, releasing an internal poll dated July 16th<\/a> claiming that he’s beating Doheny by a whopping 32% among likely primary voters.<\/p>\n

“With less than 2 months until the Republican primary, and after a very heavy media buy, Matt
\nDoheny is still largely unknown to the electorate,” writes pollster John McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

“Only 25% are favorable to Doheny. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the voters either have no opinion of Doheny (33%), or have never heard of him (36%).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several caveats are in order here:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 This is an internal poll, commissioned and paid for by Team Hoffman, with no detailed crosstabs made available.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 The poll apparently raised questions about which Republican candidate is more or less conservative.\u00a0 It’s unclear whether those questions — which can influence a poll’s outcomes — were asked before or after the basic question of Who would you vote for?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Hoffman had much higher name recognition at the beginning of this campaign.\u00a0 Doheny has been scrambling to establish himself with early TV and radio advertising as a viable option.\u00a0 He still has the better part of two months to build that name recognition and has the cash on hand to wage that media battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still, if these numbers are anything like accurate, this figures to be a bruising primary right to the finish, and raises the specter of the Republican Party leaderships chosen candidate once again being drubbed by the Tea Party-Conservative favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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