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WASHINGTON – Two stunning new polls show appointed first-term Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand with a race on her hands – and one has her clinging to a one-point lead over Republican Joe DioGuardi. Gillibrand leads her opponent by a margin of just 45-44 among likely voters in the SurveyUSA poll, which has her carrying the five boroughs but losing upstate. MORE: CUOMO WITH 33-POINT LEAD OVER PALADINO MORE: AG RACE TIGHT In another new poll by Quinnipiac University, Gillibrand leads DioGuardi 48-42 among likely voters. That poll has independent voters splitting nearly evenly between the two candidates, with 41 percent for...

Drew Angerer/AP Photo Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Back in happier days for Democrats, say early 2009 when New York Gov. David Paterson chose Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate, it was thought her pro-gun and fiscal hawk stands and her ties to a conservative part of the state would give her a general-election edge. And it still may. But a recent Quinniapiac University poll showed Gillibrand with just a six-point lead over Tea Party-backed Republican Joseph DioGuardi in a survey of likely voters, with the senator at 48 percent and her GOP challenger at 42 percent. What's...

Yesterday's primary victories of O'Donnell in Delaware, and DioGuardi in New York illustrates how the Tea Party is cleansing the Republican Party and installing true believers over professional politicians. It is a healthy trend that will continue to recreate the Party of Reagan. But the conventional media, instead of hailing this trend, warns that conservatives cannot be elected and bemoans the victory of true believers saying that it is equivalent to handing seats to the Democrats and the liberals. This reasoning, which made sense in other times, is badly flawed in today's political climate. When social issues like abortion, gays,...

Former Rep. Joseph DioGuardi of New York won the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in November’s election. With 85 percent of the precincts counted in yesterday’s primary, DioGuardi had 42 percent of the vote, according to the Associated Press. David Malpass, a former Bear Stearns Cos. chief economist, had 38 percent and Bruce Blakeman, a lawyer, had 20 percent. DioGuardi, 69, represented the northern New York City suburbs in the House from 1985 to 1989. He and Gillibrand, 43, are running to serve the two years remaining in the term won in 2006 by Hillary Clinton,...

new york state RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC. August 9,2010 DioGuardi for US Senate 420 South Riverside Ave., Suite 321 Croton-an-Hudson, NY 10520 Dear Mr. DioGuardi: We are pleased to inform you that we enthusiastically endorse your candidacy for the United Sates Senate in New York. We sincerely appreciate your commitment to defend and protect unborn children, the dependent elderly and those with disabilities. On behalf of the innocent and vulnerable members of the human family, we thank you for your resolve to value the sanctity of Life at all stages of development. We believe that your election to the...

A new Quinnipiac poll in New York shows Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) way ahead of any of her three possible Republican challengers for U.S. Senate. She beats Bruce Blakeman (R), 44% to 26%, tops David Malpass (R), 45% to 24%, and is ahead of Joseph DioGuardi (R), 43% to 28%. Said pollster Maurice Carroll: "Who are those guys who want to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand? In match-ups, each of the three gets the generic Republican vote. But most voters don't know much about any of them."

Republican decision-makers in New York missed the boat – big time. The U.S. Senate junior position currently held by a one-time “conservative” Democrat turned mouth-piece for Sen. Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, is probably the weakest seat in the state. According to a June 14 Sienna College poll, Gillibrand’s favorability rating is down six points from last month to a dismal 36%. Here is the perfect opportunity to show the rest of the country that even liberal New York is ripe for upheaval. New York State Conservative Party got it right when they chose former Congressman Joe DioGuardi as their designated...

In a mock election, a nation-wide Gallup poll shows Republicans beating Democrats at the voting booth 49% to 43%– it’s a record! No wonder Republicans in New York are hopeful for a successful November and anxious to color a state red that is mostly governed by Democrats. They are a hopeful Party – yes – but do they want to win? Golden Fact: No Republican in New York has been elected to state-wide office without the endorsement of both the Republican and Conservative Party. That is because New Yorkers are mostly registered Democrats and in some places out-number Republicans 7...

- New York Republicans have given Bruce Blakeman the party's official designation to take on Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. The three-day GOP convention came to a fractious end with the Republican delegates split on their choice of Senate candidate. Bruce Blakeman is the former presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature. He won the endorsement over David Malpass, who earned enough support at Thursday's convention to run in a September 14th GOP primary. Malpass is a former Bear Stearns chief economist. A third candidate, former congressman Joe DioGuardi, didn't get enough votes for a primary line. But he is vowing...

Kirsten Gillibrand got lucky when she landed a US Senatorial job in early 2009. Handpicked by (soon departing) New York Governor Patterson, she has disappointed some Democrats for her political lunge to the progressive left and blind allegiance to the Democrat Party. The previous year in ’08 she was campaigning for re-election to US Congress – District 20. She expressed during a commercial spot that she would represent all the people, “Democrats and Republicans” in exchange for their vote. Known at the time for being “moderate” it surprised many when, in just two short years, her perspective would change so...

Attention Ryan Seacrest: This DioGuardi wants to go to Washington – not Hollywood. Former Congressman Joe DioGuardi, better known these days as the father of “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi, launched Tuesday a bid to become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in New York. Mr. DioGuardi, who represented suburban Westchester County in the House of Representatives for two terms in the 1980s, appears to be getting plenty of media attention

DioGuardi Gets Hometown SupportBy Elizabeth Benjamin Former Westchester Rep. Joe DioGuardi has locked up the support of his hometown party organization as the jockeying for position among would-be GOP challengers to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand intensifies, the DN's Glenn Blain reports. Westchester Republican Chairman Doug Colety said his committee will formally announce its endorsement of DioGuardi as early as next week. The decision was made at a committee meeting about a week ago. "We want to give him the hometown support and a very strong kickoff,” DioGuardi said. DioGuardi, who turns 70 this year, is a certified public accountant and...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has enjoyed strong support from a lobbyist group that backs the Kosovo Liberation Army despite allegations the KLA is a Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida. The Albanian American Civic League, or AACL, regards the KLA as "freedom fighters," said the AACL's president, former Republican congressman Joe DioGuardi of New York. They're "not terrorist, like the Serbs and Greeks say," DioGuardi insisted in an interview with WND. But Islam expert Robert Spencer, editor of the popular website Jihad Watch, contends radical Islam is the driving force behind the Kosovo...

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists February 13, 2008 Source: Svet Americans of Albanian heritage collected a million dollars in one evening for the presidential campaign of Republican Senator John McCain, said the Albanian American Civic League yesterday, the lobby group headed by former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. A reception for McCain was held January 22 at the Saint Regis Hotel in Manhatten, and the senator, who is now leading in the runoff for the Republican party candidacy in the November elections, cut his campaign in Florida by one day to attend this gathering. "Even in 1998 when we had problems...

It is somewhat pathetic that even after 9/11, and even after a nearly four-year trial at the Hague disproving “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” of Albanians in Kosovo (something the late reporter Daniel Pearl uncovered as early as 1999), the Jewish community still insists on being used to promote the agenda of the Albanian lobby that allied us with the al Qaeda-trained Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. As part of his PR push to see the West seal its 1999 blunder that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs, Jews, Roma and other non-Albanians from Kosovo--which is a hair away from...

AP - The war crimes trial of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army started at the UN Yugoslav tribunal on Monday, marking the first time ethnic Albanians face charges stemming from the Kosovo war. Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala and Isak Musliu will be tried for their alleged roles in the murder, torture and imprisonment of Serb civilians and Albanian dissenters during the 1998-1999 conflict. The arrest of the trio in February set off protests in Kosovo's capital Pristina, where many Albanians view them as heroes in a war for independence. All have pleaded not guilty. William Dunlap, professor...

Kosovo independence petition started -The petitioning is being done throughout Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, and is planned on being submitted to the US congress. TETOVO, SKOPLJE [Skoplje is Serbian version of the name Skopje] - The American Albanian Civic League has started up a petition for the independence of Kosovo. The league, which is currently collecting signatures of support, is lead by [former] US congressman Joseph DioGuardi, who is of Albanian descent. The petitioning is being done throughout Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, and is planned on being submitted to the US congress. A promotion was held today in Tetovo [Macedonia],...