[Conservativegreatgrandma]

This Daggett fellow needs to be ashamed and let this be a lesson to all you "third-party" lovers.

First Al Franken, and now this.

The NY race is different. See Michael Medved's piece of today.

[OldDeckHand]

"This Daggett fellow needs to be ashamed and let this be a lesson to all you "third-party" lovers."

I agree. NY-23 might end up being the exception to the rule, but the "rule" is that 3rd-Party candidates are usually bad for the traditional opposition party candidate. Of course, in NY-23, it's an incumbent party and not an incumbent politician, so there's at least a little difference

It would be interesting to see an actual study - but, with the exception of Ross Perot, I can't think of many other 3rd Party candidates that actually hurt the incumbent. They usually siphon off votes from the insurgent candidate by appealing to those people that are already disillusioned with, and unlikely to vote for the incumbent

[DM1]

agreed and well said