Or they could vote for the actual GOP candidate, Anthony Pappas. I wonder if he's bothered to file his FEC paperwork yet to accept campaign donations? He doesn't seem to be taking his run too seriously. I think he just assumed Crowley would be his Democratic opponent and he'd lose in a landslide.
It's usually 83% to 17% in NY-14 for the Dem. Given a choice between a sympathy vote the latest GOP sacrificial lamb, and possibly fracturing the Democrat Party nationally, the wise GOP voter in eastern Manhattan will go for Crowley.