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Biden says NY-23 can teach conservatives a lesson
Biden says NY-23 can teach conservatives a lesson
Castle will make a run for Senate. (CNN) - Former Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York's 23rd congressional district to teach conservative "absolutists" a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race "We aren't asking you to switch your party," Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. "We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who ...
Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's
washingtonexaminer.com — By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 10/26/09 10:55 PM EDT Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll , down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election. Biden's unfavorable rating ... (more) Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's
Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues to Decline
Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues to Decline
gallup.com — PRINCETON, NJ -- After peaking at 59% last November, Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating continues to decline and now stands at 42%. That barely exceeds his 40% unfavorable rating, and is easily his worst evaluation since last year's ... (more) Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues to Decline
Biden campaigning for Owens in NY 23
politico.com — The White House is sending Vice President Joe Biden to upstate New York to campaign for Democrat Bill Owens, according to an administration source, in a last-minute push to help Democrats pick up the longtime Republican House seat. The Biden rally ... (more) Biden campaigning for Owens in NY 23
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At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson
Gateway Pundit — In a rally today in Watertown, New York that was only slightly over half full Joe Biden urged voters in NY-23 to teach conservatives a lesson and vote for the trailing democrat. CNN Political Ticker reported: Former Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York’s 23rd congressional district to teach conservative “absolutists” a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race “We aren’t asking you to switch your party,” Biden said at a ...

Biden: Moderate Republican Voters Should Teach The GOP A Lesson, Vote Owens
TPM Election Central — ... At his rally today with NY-23 Democratic candidate Bill Owens, Vice President Biden tapped into the emerging narrative that the this election represents the expulsion of moderates from the Republican Party -- and that moderate GOP voters should vote for Owens in order to teach the GOP a lesson. ...

The NY 23 race: does Joe Biden really think…
neo-neocon — ... …he speaks to rank and file upstate New York Republicans when he asks them to show conservatives a lesson by voting for Owen? I’m not a Biden fan, but I thought he had a little more political savvy then that after all these years. ...

BlogTalk: Countdown to Election Day
The Caucus — ... for those who have yet to make up their mind in the 23rd: Hoffman continues to lead in the latest Siena poll and, at this point, the “undecided” poll respondents should be told to stay home. If you don’t know whether you’re a Democrat or a “right-wing extremist,” you’re too dumb to be allowed to vote. This morning Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Watertown in upstate New York for a last minute rally for Mr. Owens.“We aren’t asking you to switch your party,” Mr. Biden said. “We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is ...

Biden concern trolling the Teabaggers.
INSTAPUTZMeh. "We aren't asking you to switch your party," Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. "We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party."I think there are much better arguments for voting for Owens beyond "lets make the GOP a stronger, more diverse, better party." C'mon, Joe. ...

“Former” VP Biden, the gift that keeps on giving
C-POL: Constitutionalist, conservative politics — Too bad this was just a brain burp on CNN’s part.  [image] This is from a CNN article today reporting on the ongoing efforts by Democrats to help Bill Owens overcome the surging candidacy of conservative Doug Hoffman.  Even though alleged Republican Dede Scozzafava is now campaigning for the Democrat, Hoffman currently holds a five-point lead over Owens in the latest ...

Is Rahm’s Luck Running Out?
GayPatriot — ... should have a good shot. Indeed, that’s precisely why Obama plucked the popular Republican incumbent from the seat to be his Army secretary — Rahm thought it was a likely pick-up.  With Dede’s endorsement, that task seemed easier.  Should the Democrat now lose, the White House will have major egg on its face, particularly as Administration officials decrying Hoffman’s success as a sign of the extremism of and rise of the “absolutists” in the GOP. Rahm Emanuel may be crowing about locking down the Scozzafava ...

Vote Now: Who Will Win the NY-23 Special Congressional Election?
Capital Eye — Republicans dropping out and endorsing Democrats. Other Republicans endorsing Conservative Party candidates. Vice President Joe Biden and a host of other Democrats flying in to help Republicans helping Democrats against ... Forget it. Point is, this strange little congressional election in an otherwise sleepy section of Upstate New York has generated more intrigue than the state's 23rd Congressional District has certainly ever seen. (Read our coverage here.) It helps that it's all but the only game in the nation on this, Election Day -- at ...

Biden, Absolutists, Irony, and NY-23 (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice — ... Vice President Joe Biden was in upstate New York today stumping for Bill Owens in the heated NY-23 Congressional special election. You know, the one that doesn’t matter and has no national portent whatsoever, except if Owens wins, of course. In any event, Biden had a few words to say about Scozzafava’s departure and the GOP: ...

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Biden v. Palin -- The Re-Match
blogs.abcnews.com 20 days ago — ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Campaigning in an upstate New York congressional district, Vice President Joe Biden today attacked his one-time opponent, Sarah Palin, who has led a succession of big-name Republicans in backing the candidacy of the ...
What next week's congressional election in New York won't tell us about the Republican party.
slate.com 26 days ago — Odd-numbered election years are like panda bears: They take on special significance mainly because there are so few of them. [ more ... ] Sponsored Topics: New York - Republican - Politics -  ...
Down the Stretch: Three-Way Race Heats Up in New York Special Election
politicsdaily.com 26 days ago — WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- In the nation's only congressional race on November 3, Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman has morphed in recent weeks from a no-hope third party protest candidate to the lion of right-wing talkers (from Rush Limbaugh to Glenn ...
Politico's Allen: Republicans 'Crazy, Suicidal' To Support Hoffman Over Scozzafava
newsbusters.org 26 days ago — Mike Allen might not be a Republican political strategist, but he tried playing one on TV today, telling the GOP it was "crazy" and "suicidal" to be supporting Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava in a special congressional election ...
Jillian Bandes: RINO Hunting in Upstate NY
townhall.com 24 days ago — As goes the New York-23 special congressional election, so goes the direction of the national GOP? Not so fast. "The national media is making it sound as though there's a civil war between the RINOs and the...
Republicans catch a BIG break in New York 23
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 22 days ago — From NBC's Chuck ToddAs first reported by the Watertown Daily Times, the Republican nominee in the New York 23rd Congressional special election, Dede Scozzafava, announced this morning she's suspending her campaign. Her exit leaves Conservative Party ...
Pataki Makes Surprise Endorsement in N.Y. House Race
blogs.wsj.com 22 days ago — Naftali Bendavid reports on Congress. The special election in upstate New York has turned a lot of political rules on their head. And now, with Tuesday's vote in the state's 23rd Congressional District almost upon us, former New York Gov. George ...
2009 Elections Preview: NY-23 -- A Toss-Up, Indeed, Between Owens, Hoffman
fivethirtyeight.com 21 days ago — New York 23rd Congressional District -- Special Election to replace Rep. John McHugh The Candidates: Bill Owens , Democrat State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava , Republican Doug Hoffman , Conservative Party of New York The Polling: There has been ...
What the NY-23 Special Election Is Really About
politics.theatlantic.com 21 days ago — In the span of a few short weeks, the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District has become the one result that the savviest church members are polishing off our sharpest metaphors for. But what would a victory by the Democrat, Bill ...
A Pagan Republican: Trick? Or Treat?
politicsdaily.com 20 days ago — Political junkies across the country are fixating on Tuesday's vote in otherwise unremarkable congressional district in upstate New York because of the ominous portents in the race -- chief among them the Republican split over whether to support the ...
Conservatism's Comeback ... in New York?! -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
corner.nationalreview.com 20 days ago — Laura Ingraham e-mailed this around in the wee hours: Of course "Republican" Dede Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat in the New York-23 congressional race! When I first got word of her dropping out three days before Tuesday's special election, I ...
Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Owens
outsidethebeltway.com 20 days ago — The special election to fill New York’s 23rd Congressional District seat vacated by the appointment of Republican John McHugh as Secretary of the Army has taken yet another bizarre twist. Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava dropped out over ...
Palin, Biden spar over N.Y. congressional race
voices.washingtonpost.com 19 days ago — By Garance Franke-Ruta Quoting Ann Coulter, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook on Monday to spar with Vice President Biden over energy policy and the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. Voters in Upstate New ...
MSNBC Bizarrely Touts Special Election as a ‘Win-Win’ For Dems, Even if They Lose
newsbusters.org 19 days ago — Is there nothing MSNBC can’t spin? A graphic on Tuesday’s Morning Meeting hopefully announced, " NY-23: Win-Win For Dems?" Apparently, even if Democrats lose the special congressional election in New York to Conservative Party candidate ...
As The Media Obsesses Over New York Special Election, It Ignores Leftward Lurch In California Special Election
thinkprogress.org 18 days ago — In the past few weeks, conservatives and their allies in the press have obsessed over the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district. Pundits have claimed that the rise of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman as the ...
A Flat Tire Leads to Accusations in NY-23 Race
blogs.wsj.com 18 days ago — Anton Troianovski reports on the election in New York’s 23rd congressional district. Until votes are counted tonight, this might be as exciting as it gets in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Doug Hoffman , the soft-spoken Conservative Party candidate in ...
Palin responds to Biden criticism at Owens rally
thehill.com 19 days ago — Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) on Monday responded to Vice President Joe Biden's comments about her support for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in a hotly contested special election. Biden today appeared at a rally for Democratic ...
Biden stumps for Owens, takes dig at PalinRantburg
(CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York's 23rd congressional district to teach conservative "absolutists" a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race. "We aren't asking you to switch your ...
Sessions Assesses New York Selection ProcessTop Stories from CQ
On the heels of the GOP’s second special election loss in New York this year, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Wednesday morning that Empire State Republicans need to adopt a more open candidate selection process.
As The Media Obsesses Over New York Special Election, It Ignores Leftward Lurch In California SpeciaDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/03/cali-special-election/[/b] In the past few weeks, conservatives and their allies in the press have obsessed over the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district. Pundits have claimed that the rise of Conservative Party candidate ...
MSNBC Bizarrely Touts Special Election as a 'Win-Win' For Dems, Even if They LoseRantburg
Is there nothing MSNBC can't spin? A graphic on Tuesday's Morning Meeting hopefully announced, "NY-23: Win-Win For Dems?" Apparently, even if Democrats lose the special congressional election in New York to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, it will just show how extreme the ...
New York Election Results: Updates On NY-23 RacePolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
*****CHECK BACK HERE AT NINE PM ET FOR RESULTS***** The nation focused on a rural swath of northern New York state Tuesday in an unusually relevant special congressional election in which the Democrat sought to exploit a split in Republican loyalties and recapture a seat held for decades by ...
NY-23 Election Takes On Outsize ImportanceThe Huffington Post | Full News Feed
ALBANY, N.Y. — The nation focused on a rural swath of northern New York state Tuesday in an unusually relevant special congressional election in which the Democrat sought to exploit a split in Republican loyalties and recapture a seat held for decades by the GOP. The race started about ...
Election Day 2009: The Dems Pre-SpinMoJo Blog Posts: mojo
Today, there are three elections being watched by the politerati: governor's contests in New Jersey and Virginia and a special election to fill an upstate New York congressional seat that was vacated by a Republican. It looks as if the Republicans—who have widely been regarded as hapless ...
Doug Hoffman's Race to Lose?Swampland
There were two campaign events held in Watertown, NY yesterday. Democrat Bill Owens, vying to represent New York's 23rd congressional district, hosted Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in the morning. His opponent, Conservative Doug Hoffman, hosted former presidential candidate Fred Thompson ...
The Rundown, 10/3The Atlantic Politics Channel
It's Election Day 2009! It seems like yesterday that America elected Barack Obama its 44th president, and now here we are, back voting again on gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, plus a much-anticipated special election in New York's 23rd district, and an anti-gay-marriage ballot ...
Hurtling Toward 2010, 10/03The Atlantic Politics Channel
The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Not only is former Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava backing former rival Democrat Bill Owens in New York's 23rd district, she's recorded robo-calls for him ; Vice President Joe Biden campaigned for Owens ; two ...
Biden Calls on GOP Voters in N.Y. to ‘Teach a Lesson to Absolutists’WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Anton Troianovski reports on the special election in upstate New York. There's not much time left, but Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Watertown, N.Y., to try to build support for Democrat Bill Owens in the roller-coaster congressional contest in upstate New York. “We're not asking ...
Meredith Jessup: NY-23: Biden Plugs Owens; Attacks Limbaugh, Palin, WSJTownhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
You know things are not going well for Democrats when the party's approval-ratings leader is Joe Biden. With this distinction, Biden's been sent out on the campaign trail in New York's 23rd congressional district....
Short memory for RepublicansPolitical Intelligence
If nothing else, the Republican National Committee knows how to adjust on the fly. Until Saturday, it was firmly behind New York assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the official GOP candidate in the special election Tuesday in the upstate 23rd Congressional District....  ...
Revolt in New YorkRealClearPolitics - Homepage
Saturday's decision by Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of tomorrow's special Congressional election in upstate New York is a potentially big political moment that could help to return the GOP to first principles—or could lead to internecine ruin. Much will depend on how GOP leaders and ...
Revolt In New York: “Beltway Bigs Misjudged Public Dismay Against The Democratic Agenda In Washington”Pat Dollard | Young Americans
Washington Post: Saturday’s decision by Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of tomorrow’s special Congressional election in upstate New York is a potentially big political moment that could help to return the GOP to first principles—or could lead to internecine ruin. Much ...
Chris Kelly: Biased Media, Dirty Tricks and Special Interests Drive Out RepublicanPolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
Three days before the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district, the Republicans have lost their candidate. Dede Scozzafava has dropped out. This leaves upstate New York, parts of which have voted for the party of Lincoln since Lincoln, without a Republican choice. They ...
Scozzafava Drops Campaign in New York 23 SpecialMyDD
Even if this were perhaps foreseeable, it's nevertheless surprising. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence parties candidate in the 23rd Congressional District, is suspending her campaign and releasing her supporters. The state Assemblywoman has not backed either of her two ...
GOP establishment-backed candidate Dede Scozzafava withdraws from NY-23 special election.Think Progress
In recent weeks, the special congressional election in New York’s 23 district has been heating up , with “big tent” and “establishment” Republicans — such as Newt Gingrich, the RNC, and the NRCC — backing Dede Scozzafava, and “purist” ...
Vt. Dems rally for NY congressional raceDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]AP[/b] PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Vermont Democrats are organizing to help their New York counterparts get out the vote in a special congressional election. Voters in northeastern New York's 23rd congressional district go to the polls Tuesday in a special off-year election that's ...
Sessions Assesses New York Selection Process (CQPolitics.com)Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - On the heels of the GOP's second special election loss in New York this year, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Wednesday morning that Empire State Republicans need to adopt ...