Posted on 10/30/2009 4:07:41 PM PDT by BAW
The White House is sending Vice President Joe Biden to upstate New York next Monday to campaign for Democrat Bill Owens, according to an administration source, in a last-minute push to help Democrats pick up the longtime Republican House seat.
The rally will be taking place in Watertown.
The Biden event comes the day before the special election, which has turned into a two-way contest between Owens and a third-party Conservative challenger, Doug Hoffman, who has captured the momentum in the race in the last several days.
It’s the second time Biden has campaigned for Owens – he went up to Syracuse in September to fundraise for him. And Obama headlined a New York City fundraiser for Owens last week.
For Owens to win, he needs to gin up the Democratic base in the upstate New York district to show up at the polls -- voters who don’t normally turn out for off-year elections.
The visit by Biden underlines how badly national Democrats want to snatch this seat, Republican-held since before the Civil War, from the GOP. But it also reflects Democrats' 11th-hour efforts to avoid a clean sweep Tuesday of the three mostly closely-watched races.
With Republicans almost certainly winning the Virginia gubernatorial contest and the New Jersey governor's race very much up in the air, the upstate New York congressional race may represent the party's best chance for victory.
Biden has become the go-to man in the administration for House Democrats, regularly headlining fundraisers for vulnerable incumbents. He also weighed in in the last special congressional race, taping a radio ad for Rep. Scott Murphy's campaign this past spring.
“stand up, chuck”
stupid is as stupid does
Biden should help the get out the vote effort—for Hoffman.
This is good news for Hoffman.
Is he going to NY23 to help Owens or Dede? Owen has alot more than Dede... he should help her. Or, he could help both against the evil Hoffman.
Just tryin’ to get more news coverage, to draw more voters to the polls. Doesn’t even really matter what Gaffe-Master B says. Just the coverage that he was there is important. But,,, I hope he steps on his tongue again!
Will he gush over her in classic drunk style? “I LOVE her!!”
Here he was gushing over Michele 0bama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBNeNHHXEY
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When WE, the citizens and voters of this nation insist on that course of action ourselves, in large numbers, we will inact change.
That is what is happening here with Sarah, Pataki, and others as they openly support Hoffman...and it is what MUST happen with each of us. By doing so we will pull the GOP back to the constitution and to its own platform.
When we do, the right candidates and the right parties will rise to the top like cream rises to the top of fresh milk because we will have insisted and forced it to be so.
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Oh good, send the buffoon who has a 40% approval rating. That should help. BWHAHAHAHAHA!
(Yes. Referring to Dede, the “R.”)
What if Governor Palin was to show up for Hoffman the same night, across town.
The One must be in a panic the show is almost over. If conservatives can start winning seats so close to his coronation, it’s a bad sign for his future socialist Utopia.
What if Governor Palin was to show up for Hoffman the same night, across town.
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Would love to see that. Biden vs. Palin - no contest. Not really fair to the Dems - but this is war.
VP Biden is like a box of chocolates—you just don’t know what you’ll get next!
Assassination insurance.
"Axelrod told me to get on up to NY-23 to 'tear the heads off those puppies,' so that's what I'm here to do...dang those guys from Chicago play rough."
...Sending Biden?....I thought they *wanted* Owens to win!
Why aren’t they sending in Governor David Paterson to fight for their man? Or are they?
Not exactly sending in crack reinforcements, are they?
Reminds me something that Patton once said:
“I’d rather have two German battalions in front of me, than three French ones behind me.”
That is exactly what I was thinking. What great pictures that would make.
:)
Bill Owens probably said a bad word out loud when he got the news. Heh...
Heh.... love it.
He will probably be speaking to unconscious people in nursing homes. And I’m sure some ex-Acorn folks will be helping them vote.
There's a special place in Hell for these types.
No kidding. And they’ll probably name it “the Biden wing” in his honor.
Pirated video of Joe Biden rehearsing his address to rally DemocRATS for Owens:
Who's the scary Gringo?
They only send it in for Obama, lol.
Congress could really use a CPA........!!!!!
A “Bundyism.”
They’re sending Joe so they can blame him for Hoffman’s win.
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