[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Problem is that alot of the absentees would have been cast before Hoffman burst onto the scene and before Scuzz’s liberalism became well known, so many of the would-be Hoffman votes will instead be Scuzz votes.

"I don’t know if we would have conceded on election night," Rob Ryan, Hoffman’s campaign spokesman, said Wednesday while discussing the latest results of the recanvassing. "I’m someone who doesn’t like to look back. But would we have taken longer to make a decision on election night? Probably, if we knew it was only 3,000 votes making the difference."

. . . Ryan said the absentee ballots are likely to favor Hoffman because most were likely mailed before Republican Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign three days before the election.

"For Doug to win, we needed a three-way race," Ryan said, adding that the campaign’s internal polls showed Hoffman would win with all three candidates.

[sportutegrl]

. . . Ryan said the absentee ballots are likely to favor Hoffman because most were likely mailed before Republican Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign three days before the election.

"For Doug to win, we needed a three-way race," Ryan said, adding that the campaign’s internal polls showed Hoffman would win with all three candidates.

Shout out to all the FReepers who kept disagreeing with me when I kept saying that Dee Dee was splitting the Liberal/Dem vote. (Prolly why she dropped out, IMO).

[mosesdapoet]

“I’m somepne who doesn’t like to look back”...Bob Ryan Hoffman campaign manager...Yea, if I were Ryan I’d like to forget that blunder too.
Thanks for the insight into that decision, which I consider amateurish and that mistake is too often made by political novices. There are later threads on this race posted in this FR cycle replete with videos unrelated to the subject which the administrator has locked down because of “spooky postings”.

If any FR has close ties with a syndicated talkie they should call this to their attention (including their congressman) because of the rush to seat Ownens before he was certified the winner of this election.

As far as the Hoffman election goes they failed to do an in depth polling to understand what the election results were turning up and instead based their decision on a faulty assumption
http://www.theusmat.com/home.htm.

[rhinohunter]

Hmmm... I'm still doubtful he can make up the difference.

But the one thing that is clear is that Hoffman should NOT have conceded -- even if it was only to delay Owens' certification and hence to holdup queen pelosi's hc bill.

Not that I would have expected Hoffman to know all that detail... but the GOP House leadership should have known... but they weren't on Hoffman's side anyway, were they?