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Doug Hoffman Says ACORN, Labor Unions Stole Election in NY-23
By David Sessions - Politics DailyConservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race for Congress in New York's 23rd District to Democrat Bill Owens, is alleging that ACORN and labor unions helped Owens steal the election, Politico reports. On Wednesday, Hoffman retracted his election night concession statement and asked supporters for donations to help fund a legal challenge to the results. "As evidence surfaces, we find out that reported results from election night were far from accurate. ACORN and the unions did their best to try and sway the results to Obamacare supporter Bill Owens," Hoffman wrote on his ...
2 New Democrats to Be Sworn In Before Health Care Vote
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHow "special" were the two special elections that the Democrats won on Tuesday night? So special that the winners, John Garamendi in California and Bill Owens in New York, will be sworn into their new jobs in the House of Representatives in time to cast their votes for the Democrats' health care reform bill this weekend. Unlike the newly elected governors in Virginia and New Jersey, who will take office in January, the Democrats' victories came in contests to fill the unexpired terms of two House members, so by law must be sworn in immediately. (See Jill Lawrence's great write-up HERE for the ...
Report Card on the Pollsters in the Off-Year Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySo, how did the pollsters do in their final surveys before the key off-year races in predicting the results? ...
Was the Election About Obama?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Forget what voters told exit pollsters. Tuesday's election is being analyzed as a referendum on President Obama. Republicans Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey captured governor's seats that were held by Democrats. Obama won both states a year ago. He campaigned hard for Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and made appearances for Creigh Deeds late in the campaign, despite some bad blood between the Virginia Democrat's campaign and the White House. Many headlines Wednesday morning portrayed the vote results as bad news for Obama. "It sends a clear signal that ...
The Election's Carry-Over Lessons? There Are Fewer Than You Think.
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe gubernatorial wing of the GOP – the last bastion of pragmatists in an ideologically rigid party – was probably the major victor Tuesday night amid a series of surprising off-year election results from East Coast states.Chris Christie, the former federal prosecutor who will become the GOP governor of reliably Democratic New Jersey, pulled off an upset by defeating free-spending but unpopular incumbent Jon Corzine by 100,000 votes. After fending off a conservative challenger in the June primary, Christie (strongly aided by the Republican Governors Association) railed against the ...
Conservative Loses in NY-23 Stunner, Despite Palin and Pawlenty Support
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Republicans got the press, but the Democrat got the votes in the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. On an otherwise dismal night for his party, Democrat Bill Owens captured 49 percent of the vote. Conservative Doug Hoffman won 45 percent of the vote, while Republican Dede Scozzafava picked up a crucial five percent, even after dropping out of the race. Owens, an Air Force retiree and lawyer, will become the first Democrat in more than 100 years to hold the seat, leaving the New York congressional delegation with just two Republicans in its ranks. Democrats were ...
The Battle of NY-23 and Sarah Palin's Purity Problem
By David Corn - Politics DailyOnce you whip up a mob, can you control it? That may be Sarah Palin's next problem. Before the votes were counted Tuesday night, the former Republican vice presidential candidate was already something of a winner. Though her candidate in the special election for a House seat in upstate New York, Doug Hoffman, lost to Democrat Bill Owens -- in an area that hasn't sent a Democrat to the House since the 1800s -- Palin, by intervening in the race, had established herself as a successful ideological power broker. At first, Hoffman was merely a third-party conservative candidate in New York's 23rd ...
Pollsters From Both Parties: Republicans Headed for a Good Election Day
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyTwo leading pollsters from opposite parties agreed Monday that Republicans could sweep big elections Tuesday for governor in both Virginia and New Jersey and a congressional seat in upstate New York. Democrat Mark Mellman said only 12 governors that have run for re-election in the past have had numbers as bad as those of New Jersey Democrat Jon Corzine, whose unfavorable rating tops 50 percent in many polls. Only two of them have won -- Jennifer Granholm of Michigan and now-disgraced Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. "It's a very tough thing to do," Mellman said at a breakfast sponsored by the ...
Hoffman Leads in Upstate N.Y. House Race, but Many Undecided
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn the upstate New York House race that has attracted national attention, Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate now embraced by the GOP, leads Democrat Bill Owens by 41 percent to 36 percent with 6 percent backing Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out of the race on Saturday, according to a Siena College poll conducted Nov. 1. Eighteen percent are undecided, The margin of error is 4 points. ...
America's Biggest Little Election
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsThere are only two congressional elections Tuesday, but one of them is turning out to be a real doozy. In what pundits are treating as a microcosm of the battle for the soul of the GOP, Republican Dede Scozzafava abruptly quit the race in New York's 23rd District and endorsed a Democrat instead of the Conservative Party candidate. Pressure from conservatives who rallied around third-party challenger Doug Hoffman -- including such potential Republican presidential candidates as Sarah Palin and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty -- forced Scozzafava to give up. Another possible 2012 contender, Newt ...
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