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Democrat wins House seat in heavily GOP area in NY
Breitbart ^ | Nov 4, 2009 | VALERIE BAUMAN

Posted on 11/04/2009 4:08:47 AM PST by Ratman83

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Democrat Bill Owens has captured the special election for a New York congressional seat that became a fight over the identity of the Republican Party.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hoffman; ny23; scuzzafava; scuzzy
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To: Ratman83
"...a New York congressional seat that became a fight over the identity of the Republican Party."

That describes it. The NY Republican Party lost that seat.

21 posted on 11/04/2009 4:17:15 AM PST by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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To: Always Right
So heavily Republican it was won by both Obama and Gore.

Interesting point.

22 posted on 11/04/2009 4:17:23 AM PST by syriacus (2003: Dems Breaux + Baucus sat behind closed doors with Republicans to negotiate Medicare Part D)
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To: Ratman83

Before the election, the media described the 23rd as liberal leaning or “purple”. Now the rat wins and it’s heavily GOP.


23 posted on 11/04/2009 4:17:35 AM PST by MatD
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
WHY did the RAT win?

Because he got the most votes.

24 posted on 11/04/2009 4:18:05 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Gee, thanks. WHY did he get the most votes? Is fraud a consideration?


25 posted on 11/04/2009 4:18:55 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: GoCards

Yeah the polls looked good going in. In Jersey I was worried about the corrupt stealing the election.


26 posted on 11/04/2009 4:19:16 AM PST by Ratman83
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To: Ratman83

I guess this is what passes for a “conservative” district in New York.


27 posted on 11/04/2009 4:19:16 AM PST by webschooner
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To: Ratman83

FNF has their zombie D talking head BLAMING PALIN for the Hoffman loss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 11/04/2009 4:19:36 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SolidWood

Thanks, this helps but I was so sure Hoffman would win. I expected NJ to be the problem.


29 posted on 11/04/2009 4:20:11 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: fwdude

Yeah alot of them just do a party pull.


30 posted on 11/04/2009 4:20:58 AM PST by Ratman83
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To: Always Right
So heavily Republican it was won by both Obama and Gore.

So heavily Republican that the Democrats haven't held the seat for 160 years. New York Republicans tend to be more moderate than in other areas of the country, and past congressmen from that district tend to show that. If Hoffman runs again it 2012 then he'll have to bring back those Republicans who voted against him yesterday.

31 posted on 11/04/2009 4:21:48 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: SolidWood
It was a very narrow Owens victory.

He won by four percentage points. It wasn't that narrow.

32 posted on 11/04/2009 4:22:43 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Ratman83
NEWT went for SCUZZIE early while knowing she was a liberal RINO.....he didn't believe what has been before his eyes since APRIL’s uprising ...and....AND is still growing...
..he had better get his **** together or he should write yet another book to confess why he thinks the USA needs to go Socialistic.
33 posted on 11/04/2009 4:23:06 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: longtermmemmory

The worst part is that I think the party in NW will push Hoffman to the side or black ball him completely, because he showed up the GOP canidate. He is more Conservative but that I think will not matter.


34 posted on 11/04/2009 4:23:10 AM PST by Ratman83
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To: Ratman83

spin....i don’t believe it’s such a heavy GOP area any more. If it was, why did a lib win?


35 posted on 11/04/2009 4:23:16 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: longtermmemmory

Bob Beckel.


36 posted on 11/04/2009 4:23:44 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Ratman83
where is the BARF Alert?
37 posted on 11/04/2009 4:24:08 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Non-Sequitur

There needs to be ONE candidate for the GOP. And a Conservative one... not a RINO. Dede was too weak to win anything... but the fact that the she was the R on the ballot and the earlier cast absentee votes enabled her to be the perfect tool for the ‘rats to deny Hoffman the win.


38 posted on 11/04/2009 4:24:51 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Ratman83
The whole point is we got rid of that skank Scuzzy! Hoffman, an unknown conservative, albeit not a republican held it close. This was in spite of a majority of the republican's and the republican party putting all their money a resources behind a LIBERAL!

This is at the very least a good turn of events for republican's.

39 posted on 11/04/2009 4:25:08 AM PST by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: MatD

This election was just to fill the seat until next year. By the time November rolls around again even the brain dead voters of the 23rd will have had their fill of Democrats. There will be so many battles the Democrats will have to fight next year that they won’t be able to pour the money and resources into the NY-23 that they did this time. This seat will return to the Republicans in 12 months.


40 posted on 11/04/2009 4:26:01 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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