Posted on 10/28/2014 4:27:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican John Katko has seized the momentum and surged past U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei to open up a 10-point lead in their race for Congress, according to a new poll by Syracuse.com/The Post-Standard and Siena College.
In a stunning reversal from five weeks ago when Maffei had an 8-point lead in the joint poll, Katko now leads Maffei among likely voters 52 percent to 42 percent. Only 6 percent remain undecided...
The poll of 704 likely voters in the district underscores the volatility of the race, with wild swings in the candidates' popularity. Voters were contacted by live operators on Wednesday through Friday of last week. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
The Maffei campaign immediately challenged the validity of the poll, and released its own internal poll from a week ago.
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Upstate bump
That one is going to be hard to steal. Worth watching. Should be instructive just how they do it.
Wow. Cuse has awoken? At least for now.
It’s news like this that makes me think this will tend more toward a tidal wave election. We’ll definitely gain House seats, contrary to Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz
It’s stories like this that make me think this election will tend more toward tidal wave with close races breaking GOP for a change. See the polling in NC and on the FL governor’s race, too.
The President’s policy on infectious disease is the October surprise.
Looks like you may get your wish here.
Of course, districts like these are historically Republican and should be back in their hands. At the time Maffei won Jim Walsh’s open seat in 2008, he had been the first Dem to win the seat since 1978. NY is too overrepresented with Democrats, as is virtually the entirety of the northeast.
This seat is a bellwether. It went D in 2008, R (barely) in 2010, back to D in 2012 and now this. This is excellent news if it holds, it means that the wave predictions might just come true.
I have relatives in the area.
Maffei is about as left as they come. He just might be too left for Syracuse, and that says a lot.
Yes and up in Maine, LaPage pulled ahead of Michaud by 10 points over the weekend. LaPage 45, Michaud 35, and Cutler 15. My only concern is that Cutler drops out in the next day or so and throws his support to Michaud. The race then becomes much tighter.
We may pick up the District 2 congressional seat held by Michaud until now.
Excellent news.
“Yes and up in Maine, LaPage pulled ahead of Michaud by 10 points over the weekend. LaPage 45, Michaud 35, and Cutler 15. My only concern is that Cutler drops out in the next day or so and throws his support to Michaud. The race then becomes much tighter. We may pick up the District 2 congressional seat held by Michaud until now.”
BTTT
Joe Biden held an airplane hangar rally for Maffei recently. News reports said there were 500 present. TV showed only tight shots at the podium. We’re talking virtually empty hangar.
They brought in Bill Clinton the same weekend. I didn’t see the news coverage, but since that hangar “rally,” Maffei has been running the same Clinton rally video used in his losing 2012 campaign.
Joe Biden held an airplane hangar rally for Maffei recently. News reports said there were 500 present. TV showed only tight shots at the podium. We’re talking virtually empty hangar.
They brought in Bill Clinton the same weekend. I didn’t see the news coverage, but since that hangar “rally,” Maffei has been running the same Clinton rally video used in his losing 2012 campaign.
Re: my comment at post 15-16. Maffei, of course. Won in 2012. My point was, he’s using a two year old Clinton rally video instead of footage from a recent rally.
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't hurt in this uninformed society that Katko is relatively good looking while Maffei is a beady-eyed weasel!
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