Posted on 10/31/2009 7:28:52 PM PDT by BAW
Under pressure from conservative forces within her own party, Dede Scozzafava, the regular Republican nominee in the interim House race for New York's 23d District, suddenly withdrew from the race today.
Though endorsed by the Republican National Committee and big GOP establishment names like ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Scozzafava had fallen to third place in polls of the upstate longtime Republican district next to the Canadian border.
Her retreat came in the face of a vigorous campaign by Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who was backed by Sarah Palin, Dick Armey and Fred Thompson, among others.
Her surprise move sets up a two-man showdown in just 72 hours between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens in a slick attempt by Obama White House strategists to add another seat to their party's overwhelming House majority, 257-178.
The president had appointed the Republican incumbent, John McHugh, as secretary of the Army, hoping to use a special election and the president's 52% popularity there last fall to break the GOP's historic hold on the district that runs back to the 19th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Go Doug Go. Win Doug Win.
Like I asked in a previous post, will Dede’s LACK of endorsing Hoffman help him or hurt him? I’m afraid that it may be the latter, & most of her supports will vote for the Dim.
BTTT
What happened to the $200,000 the GOP was gonna spend on the RINO? Did the a-holes spend it on her or did they wise up first?
If Dede’s votes go to Hoffman based on Monday morning polls you’ll see more of the Big Hitter DEMS in NY than in Hollywood.
Wonder who Newt will endorse now? Hoffman or Owens?
Supposedly Newt endorsed Hoffman over Twitter earlier today.
Yuck yuck yuck.
...the regular Republican...
The LA Times must mean a RINO.
The only thing that could have been better would have been to see the little GOP marxist come in 3rd.
Let this be a lesson. Go write books. Put your chubby face on Hannity everyday ...and leave us the hell alone!!
What race was Twitter running in?
Conservative ideals win again.
FEAR: expect the worst & pray for the best.
Let this be a lesson. Go write books. Put your chubby face on Hannity everyday ...and leave us the hell alone!!
He voted against Hoffman before he voted for him. What the hell has happened to Newt?
The meme that the GOP needs moderates is dead, DEAD DEAD
From the article:
“But even if the Democrat wins, the results Tuesday won’t significantly change the situation in the House, where Democrats control a huge majority.”
Technically true...but the effects on recruiting, contributing, and overall morale of Conservatives CANNOT be overstated. Also, there could be a clean-sweep of conservatives on Tuesday, which would be a MAJOR shot across the bow for Dems in competitive districts (and states), and would make it MUCH TOUGHER for Pelosi and Reid to drag these Dems along when it comes to Card Check, Amnesty, Health Care, and Global Warming.
If we win, sure, it’s just one House seat, but the dynamics of Congress will change BIG-TIME for at least the next year.
Its too late to change the ballots now. She is on them.
At best 30% of Scozzabarfa’s voters will go for the Dim. The rest will vote for Hoffman.
“The president had appointed the Republican incumbent, John McHugh, as secretary of the Army, hoping to use a special election and the president’s 52% popularity there last fall to break the GOP’s historic hold on the district that runs back to the 19th century.”
Interesting...this then makes one wonder whether Obama knew that the fix was in for Scarface, before even appointing McHugh. If so, whoops.
Can I post that on my FB??
Sarah Palin has slain the RINO and the leftists are terrified, soon we will har the lamentations of their lesbians.
Feel free to post it. A credit line would be nice.
I added
((Props to FReeper Tawiskaro))
“Republican in NY House race suspends campaign (Dierdre Scozzafava)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375663/posts
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http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=213&sid=1788406
I am confident Hoffman can win now but if he should lose we are going to hear a load of commentary from the media, and get an onslaught of of gloating from the Dems, over how Republicans blew this one by turning to the far right, and all that nonsense. They should have nominated a “moderate,” we will hear. Meanwhile McDonnell in VA is running as a conservative and will win big. They’ll downplay that of course.
Really? I’ve been hearing that they will break 2 to 1 in favor of Hoffman.
“and get an onslaught of of gloating from the Dems, over how Republicans blew this one by turning to the far right, and all that nonsense. They should have nominated a “moderate,” we will hear.”
I hear you, but you miss the point. Scarface was NOT a moderate. He victory would not have helped the Republicans a bit. She makes Olympia Snowe look like Reagan. If the Republicans had nominated a true moderate, who would be with the party on, say, 70% of the votes, then Hoffman probably wouldn’t have even run.
I know she was not moderate. She was as bad as Lowell Weicker or Edward Brooke. But the elites and talking heads will make her out to be a centrist who got pushed aside by the tea partiers and other elements they will try to paint as extremists.
Yea - I hear you...but we simply have to stop worrying about what they say - as hard as that is.
The idea of being judged and analyzed by people that HATE you and would KILL you if they could figure out a way to pull it off, is DESPICABLE...and we have to stop caring about what they claim to think is best for us.
And to do that, we simply have to give money to campaigns that represent our values...maybe the money we save by not buying their rags anymore, or having Cable.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/10/ny-23-polling-odyssey.html
WHICH RACE ARE YOU MOST INTERESTED IN?
Chapel Hill
24 (2%)
Charlotte
19 (1%)
Maine
151 (14%)
New Jersey
282 (26%)
NY-23
473 (44%)
Virginia
111 (10%)
Change your vote
Votes so far: 1060
Hours left to vote: 19
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009
NY-23 Polling Odyssey
So this morning around 10 AM I started up our NY-23 poll and after a few hundred interviews it appeared that Doug Hoffman was now running away with it-unweighted numbers showed him at 45% to 26% for Bill Owens and 17% for Dede Scozzafava.
Then came the news that Scozzafava was suspending her campaign. My first inclination was to just keep running the poll as is, but I stopped it and thought about it, and now for the rest of the weekend the first question will still provide Scozzafava as an option but also note that she’s suspended her campaign, although her name will still be on the ballot.
I’m not going to throw away the first set of interviews, but we’ll provide a crosstab for when people got surveyed. I expect Hoffman will win easily now, but if our early numbers were any indication what Scozzafava did doesn’t make much difference- he was going to win easily with or without her in the race.
I should also note that the poll included two way races between all three of the candidates as well so we will have full straight up Owens-Hoffman data for whatever that’s worth.
More excitement so far today than I might have been anticipating!
POSTED BY TOM JENSEN AT 12:22 PM
this is upstate NY...this is Watertown...Fort Drum ..isn't it....???
how can anyone support zero?....
Palin power comes into play. GOP good ol boys club aint going to like that. RINO leaders aren’t going to like the resurgence of conservatives and Regan Republicans.
Hoffman’s the Conservative Party candidate? My U.S. History teacher back in 1970 told us that one day, the main political parties in America would no longer be called the Republicans and Democrats, but they’d be called the Conservatives and the Liberals. Looks like ol’ Miss Wendt was on to something!
The only ads on tonight on Syracuse TV were anti-Hoffman ads from the Owen camp. Hoffman’s ads were mainly anti-Dede. That $200,000 could go toward a quick advertising turnaround. I heard reports today that the GOP would aid Hoffman in get out the vote activities.
I’m just pointing out that Obama had many people to choose from and I doubt that he would risk throwing away a Congressional seat (after all, Hughes was a moderate), given the votes he has coming up (and no, he needs EVERY seat he can get in the North, so he can let the Southern Democrats vote against him).
It is obvious that the Republican Party bosses up there had no interest in even considering a moderate, much less a conservative for that seat - and given her connections to the Democratic Party, and their respect for her and her husband...I’m convinced that there HAD to be phone calls made prior...nothing else makes sense.
What has happened to Newt? Hopefully he has learned one big lesson.
Epic!
Get over it, you lost.
...FIGHT for the best! Damnit
Ouch that’s gonna leave a mark!
Are we having fun yet?
Always.
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