Posted on 10/22/2009 8:02:40 AM PDT by cc2k
WASHINGTON -- Is there room in the Republican Party for genuine moderates? Truth to tell, the GOP can't decide. More precisely, it's deeply divided over whether it should allow any divisions in the party at all.
That's why the brawl in a single congressional district in far upstate New York is drawing the eyes of the nation. Conservatives are determined to use the race to prove that there is no place in the party for heretics, dissidents or independents.
President Obama set up the fight by nominating the district's former representative, John McHugh, as his Army secretary. Maybe Obama is as fiendishly clever as his more paranoid opponents believe him to be.
When local Republicans picked a moderate, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, as their candidate for the Nov. 3 contest, many on the right rebelled. They are backing a third-party conservative, Doug Hoffman, and he may well drive Scozzafava into third place. For the moment, at least, polls show that Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate, has jumped into first place on the split.
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Mostly, I think what I always think less than two weeks out from an election. Hoffman needs to get his voters to the polls. He really needs to play for McHugh’s base. If he can get 2 out of 3 of the McHugh voters, and they show up in the same proportions as last year, it is pretty sure that he is in.
CharlesWayneCT wrote:
So, what do you think
I don’t know what the others have for ground game, but Hoffman has a good ground game, and I am getting emails from other organizations in upstate NY saying they are volunteering for him. I think he has a bigger ground presence than the others. Within the district, he started with 5 locations of his own business, and I think as many as 13 locations for businesses in his family. He has roots there, and local support in addition to all of the donations from around the country.
Some of the grass roots groups in or within driving distance of this district are pitching in. This includes some TEA party and 9-12 groups, as well as some other internet based conservative grass roots organizers.
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I support Doug Hoffman for Congress (PayPal). Please, spread the word about this important election on November 3, 2009 in New York’s 23rd congressional district. |
Who writes this crap, Dede Socozzafava isn’t even a “moderate” she’s a full blown Liberal!
I received the same one. At the end, where it starts “No, I prefer to...”, I marked out the rest and wrote above it, “to elect actual conservatives”.
Yup. That was the one.
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