Posted on 10/18/2009 7:06:26 AM PDT by cc2k
ALBANY, N.Y. President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton are lending their political star power to an unlikely Democratic bid to win a special congressional election in an area that's been a Republican bastion for more than a century.
The Nov. 3 contest in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, a sprawling, 11-county area where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by 45,000, is shaping up as a test of a struggling GOP and a possible gauge of Obama's coattails.
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Democrats see an opening in the traditionally Republican district because Scozzafava and Hoffman are splitting the conservative vote.
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Could a Wave be Building?
Townhall.com | October 2009 | George Will
Posted on 10/15/2009 4:41:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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