Posted on 11/04/2009 2:54:16 PM PST by giotto
In New York's 23rd Congressional district, Democrat Owens finished with 49% , making him the winner of a plurality of the votes. What's being overlooked by Republicans and conservatives is that Scozzafava, despite having withdrawn from the race, still garnered 6% of votes, with Hoffman getting 45%. I'm guessing that most of Scozzafava's 6% were absentee ballots which had already been mailed before she dropped out. Other votes could have come from die hard fans of hers, or voters who simply didn't know she was no longer in the race.
Whatever the reason, the fact remains that Owens won with less than 50% of the vote, which means that a majority of voters did not want a Democrat congressman. In fact, there may have been Scozzafava supporters who voted for Owens in protest.
Today, for some reason, it's proving to be very difficult to find the actual percentages in this election. Most news stories simply say Owens 49%, Hoffman 45%--completely ignoring Scozzafava's 6%. Call it "spinning by omission."
Hoffman will take it next year.
Hmmmm...where’s the FUSION voting when you need it!?
This may be a case of better ‘rat than RINO but we’ll see how it plays out.
Were Scozzafava’s 6% all cast on election day?
When will the absentee ballots be added to the total?
You can’t prove all those votes would’ve went for Hoffman.
And considering the likely considerable amount of voter fraud...
Well, it couldn’t have worked out any better for them, could it? Whether those were all absentee ballots, or a mix of that and diehard Scozza fans, as I said on another thread, hardly matters, the margin of votes subtracting Scozza’s from Hoffman’s was 250, which means if Scozza’s votes were eliminated BY LAW, her NOT being a candidate,then Hoffman would have WON by 250. I will provide the link in another respone.
Good question. As I mentioned in my article, I suspect most of Scozzafava's votes were cast before she dropped out. Others possibly didn't know she had quit. But I'm sure there were many of her supporters who simply stayed home, rather than vote for a conservative. No doubt there are some conservatives who would have done the same, had Hoffman dropped out instead of Scozzafava.
Nah. The most you can make of it is 49% Hoffman, 52% Owens and -1% Acorn. ;^)
Oh--I thought they already had been added. If not, then that shoots my theory about how she got 6%, even though she wasn't running.
Unless he moves. Because of gerrymandering, he used to live in the district. Someone will get into the race. Doug Hoffman was one of the first to pave the way for more ordinary citizens to do their service. A true patriot!
Reading the Rat whiners they’re taking the NY-23 victory in favor of loosing NJ and VA - that’s like Hitler saying, “Well we lost Berlin but we still have the bunker” ....
And his race exposed the ways of the RINO’s, Newt, Steele, Mitt & Huckster.
Isn’t that great!?! We’ve been waiting years to have a conservative movement takeover of the GOP. Us diehards are going to have fun this year! I pray every night for God to show us the way. I think he’s heard our prayers! We can not let up now, it’s just starting.
Remember, seven of the machines impounded (Right!) in Albany, New York (Probably the oldest democrat machines in the country). The memory card were left in the machines as an oversight /s.
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