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How To Blow $100M And Have It Backfire
Liz Benjamin reports: With 90 percent of precincts reporting, Mayor Bloomberg is leading Bill Thompson by 494,367 to 461,129. That’s 50.0 percent to 46.7 percent, which is not decisive. Not at all. It’s more like a cliffhanger. And this after spending some $100 million of his own cash. Maybe NYers are much harder to buy than you thought, eh, Mike? Meanwhile, up in NY-23, Bill Owens (D) is doing well: Thirty-one percent of precincts are reporting and he’s leading Conservative Doug Hoffman, 51.1 percent to 43.9 percent.
NY-23 Update
The special election in NY-23, for those who need a quick refresher, came about because Obama appointed Rep. John McHugh to be Secretary of the Army. Scozzafava was, rather controversially, running on the GOP line despite some fairly liberal views. She threw in the towel this past weekend and has (also controversially!) endorsed the Democratic candidate: Bill Owens instead of the Conservative candidate, Douglas Hoffman. From TAP, her statement: I want to thank you for your support and friendship. Over the past 24 hours, I have had encouraging words sent to my family and me. Many of you have asked me whom you should support on Tuesday. Since announcing the suspension of my campaign, I have thought long and hard … More >>
Tagged hoffman, mchugh, NY-23, scozzafava, special election
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The NY-23 Petri Dish
While we are caught up with the Mayoral race here in NYC, one in which the Democratic Independent Republican candidate has personally spent more money than any other person in any other race in American history – there’s another NY race that’s getting more national attention: the congressional three way in NY-23. With Obama hovering around 50% in the US job approval polls the MSM cable news networks, tasked with bringing analysis to less than 2% of Americans, need a shiny new metric to measure the Obama administration so far. Somehow, replacing a Republican that Obama was able to woo to become his Secretary of the Army with another Republican means Obama is a steaming pile of socialist failure… But … More >>
Tagged 2012, Bill Owens, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, glenn beck, GOP, GOTP, Newt Gingrich, NY-23
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