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Conservative Doug Hoffman Running Again for Upstate New York House Seat
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyConservative Doug Hoffman, who all but forced the Republican Party's anointed candidate out of a congressional campaign in upstate New York last fall, only to see the long-held GOP seat fall to a Democrat, says he is running again this year. Hoffman expects to campaign as a Republican this time against Democrat Rep. Bill Owens, who won in November. His victory was relished by Democrats because they saw it as a sign that ideologically pure conservatives were splitting the Republican Party, the Wall Street Journal reported. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican hopeful, dropped out and endorsed Owens ...
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 ...
A Final Word On NY-23
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyRarely has a special-election for a congressional seat attracted so much media attention, drama and money. NY-23, a largely rural congressional district in upstate New York bordering Canada, has been a Republican stronghold for well over 100 years, yet last Tuesday it voted in a Democratic congressman, Bill Owens. The final results gave Owens 49 percent of the vote to Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman's 45 percent. The Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out of the race just before the election and then endorsed Owens, claimed 5 percent. The pundits have exploded trying to ...
Mike Huckabee: Another White House Whirl in 2012?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyBefore Sarah Palin became the embodiment of the conservative grassroots, another national candidate from a state beginning with "A" mastered 21st century Republican populism on his way to winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses. During the campaign, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the funniest Republican since the heyday of Bob Dole, would go off on little-guy riffs like this: "If you're a person for whom 'summer' is a verb, if you went to Harvard or Yale, you probably think the economy is doing just dandy." ...
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 ...
Sarah Palin on GOP Wins: 'Victory for Common Sense and Sanity'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter using her Facebook page to endorse candidates, speak out on issues and encourage her followers to vote in Tuesday's elections, Sarah Palin updated the page last night to call Election Day 2009 "a victory for common sense and fiscal sanity." The former Alaska governor congratulated Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell, the Republicans who won the top jobs in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as Kim Guadagno, the first woman to become lieutenant governor of the Garden State. "Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a return ...
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 ...
NY-23 Will Set Course for GOP Between Moderates and Conservatives
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn the last month alone, New York's special election for John McHugh's congressional seat has featured a coveted Sarah Palin Facebook endorsement, a less coveted Rush Limbaugh accusation of beastiality, a country music singer threatening to drop a house on Nancy Pelosi, and the crescendo of any out-of-control political opera: A candidate implosion. And that's just on the Republican side of the equation. When voters went to the polls from Plattsburgh to Owsego Tuesday, they saw three names on the ballot: Doug Hoffman, a CPA from Lake Placid running on the New York Conservative ticket (pictured, ...
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