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By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/5/10 8:34 PM EDT Another New York House race was suddenly back in play amid ongoing vote-counting today, as a recanvass of the ballot machines erased a 3,400-vote deficit for Republican Randy Altschuler in New York's 1st District and vaulted him nearly 400 ballots over Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop. It's the second House race in New York in a week in which a large deficit was suddenly reversed as new totals came in, or as the machines were gone over again. Altschuler, a self-funding businessman who ran on a fusion ticket of both the Republican and...

Here is video of an ad by GOP (and Conservative Party) candidate for Congress (New York’s 1st Congressional District, Long Island) – Randy Altschuler – opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque. Altschuler says this is not about “freedom of religion,” it is about not sending the wrong signal to “terrorists” and not dishonoring those who died in the September 11 attacks.