thehill.com - 11/4/2009
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De facto Republican nominee Doug Hoffman is now favored to win Tuesday’s special election in upstate New York.
Poll: Hoffman takes control in N.Y. special
thehill.com 11/2/2009 —
Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman was primed to win
Tuesday’s special election both before and after Republican Dede Scozzafava
dropped out, according to a new poll.
The Public Policy Polling survey shows Hoffman leading the race by ...
Hoffmania
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/29/2009 — There's a stampede among national Republicans to support Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23rd special election. And there are some signs that Hoffman may be something of a Potemkin candidate. He didn't show up at a radio debate ...
Rep. Issa switches from Scozzafava to Hoffman
thehill.com 10/31/2009 — Dede Scozzafava is now losing her supporters to Doug Hoffman. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is switching his support in the New York special election from the GOP nominee to Conservative Party candidate Hoffman. A spokesperson said Issa is ...
NRCC To Officially Back Conservative Party's Hoffman In NY-23
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/31/2009 — A GOP source tells TPM that the National Republican Congressional Committee is going to get behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election, now that moderate Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava has dropped out.
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Owens, Hoffman Seeks Scozzafava's Moderate GOP Voters In New Statements
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/31/2009 — The two remaining candidates in the NY-23 special election, Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Doug Hoffman, have now each reacted to moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava dropping out of the race.
Owens gave a conciliatory note, praising ...
Flashback: GOP Used To Badmouth Hoffman, Said He Had No Integrity
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/1/2009 — Now that the national Republican Party has gotten behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election -- following the withdrawal of moderate GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava -- it's fun to remember that the Republicans didn't ...
Siena poll shows Hoffman up 5
thehill.com 11/2/2009 — Doug Hoffman leads in both polls released the day before the
New York special election, but the Siena poll shows the race is within reach
for Democrat Bill Owens.
While Public Policy Polling had Hoffman up more than 15
points, Siena’s new poll ...
Follow the leader
washingtonmonthly.com 11/2/2009 — FOLLOW THE LEADER.... The day before the closely-watched special election in New York's 23rd, Doug Hoffman decided to take some time to check in with his friend Glenn Beck. It is not a casual connection. Lee Fang explained that Hoffman...
Hoffman Accuses Dems of 'Stealing the Election'
littlegreenfootballs.com 11/3/2009 — Dave Weigel reports that the Doug Hoffman campaign is accusing the Owens camp of bringing in the dreaded ACORN and stealing the election .
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative ...
Giuliani, Pataki Record Robocalls For Hoffman
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/3/2009 — Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki have both recorded robocalls for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election.
Rudy declares that now that Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava has dropped out, this leaves Hoffman as the ...
A Flat Tire Leads to Accusations in NY-23 Race
blogs.wsj.com 11/3/2009 — Anton Troianovski reports on the election in New Yorks 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 ...
Dud, Baby, Dud: The Lesson of Doug Hoffman
huffingtonpost.com 11/4/2009 — "I believe America is turning the page to a new dawn." ~ Doug Hoffman, Concession Speech
Doug Hoffman lost his election last night. He was supported by a plurality of talk radio entertainers, and a majority of former half-term governors of Alaska, ...
What Did NY-23 Mean?
thenextright.com 11/4/2009 — [ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman campaign . However, the views here are my own. I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ]
The bottom line on NY-23 :
Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ...
All tomorrow’s parties
balloon-juice.com 10/28/2009 — Well, there’s a pretty good chance now that the Republicans will have tebagged away what should have been an easy win in NY-23. There’s talk about the tea party candidate, Doug Hoffman, winning, but I think that’s quite unlikely. I ...
Drop Out, Dede, Drop Out!
dailypundit.com 10/30/2009 — Here’s the calculus: It has become obvious that in a straight head’s up race between Conservative Doug Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens, Hoffman would win in a walk. It is equally obvious that there is no set of circumstances under which ...
Pataki Endorsement: "Doug Hoffman can win."
weeklystandard.com 10/30/2009 — George Pataki endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman last night. This is significant. The former New York governor is a moderate and part of the New York establishment. He won by big margins in the 23rd District when he ran for governor.
A friend ...
Hoffman to NRO: 'I need Dede supporters'
thehill.com 11/1/2009 — Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman acknowledged Saturday that he needs N.Y. Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava's prospective voters in order to win his close House race on Tuesday. Hoffman also thanked Scozzafava for announcing earlier today that ...
Hoffman Concedes —
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Via the Watertown Daily Times : HOFFMAN THROWS IN TOWEL .
There are still several thousand outstanding absentee ballots to be counted, but the numbers are such that Hoffman would have to win practically all of them to capture the seat, and that is, to put it mildly, highly improbable.
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Crist, you know it ain’t easy —
Balloon Juice
Erick Erickson :
The race has now been called for Democrat Bill Owens. This is a huge win for conservatives. [....] I have said all along that the goal of activists must be to defeat Scozzafava. Doug Hoffman winning would just be gravy. A Hoffman win is not in the cards, but we did ...
Tea Party preparing for a Hoffman win —
Capitol Confidential
Members of the traveling Tea Party Express , who are currently in South Dakota, making their way to Texas and then on to Florida, say they are preparing for a Hoffman win in the 23rd CD and they’ve issued a statement admitting that they took some heat for their $1,000 contribution to ...