The lesson from NY23 is third party candidates are losers.
All politics is local which many of the national conservative leaders failed to grasp.
Democrats have a potent strategy in 2010 and 2012, divide and conquer.
The lesson from NY23 is third party candidates are losers.
All politics is local which many of the national conservative leaders failed to grasp.
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While I generally agree with you about 3rd parties, NY has a long tradition of the Conservative Party there. Hoffman lost by just 4 points. What if Scozzafava had dropped out sooner, or hadn’t been run by the GOP? A stronger Conservative party candidate would have won, or a fairly conservative R would have won.
At the end of the day, hard fought primaries and yes, this race in NY 23, will force the national and state GOPs to the embrace their conservatives - the BASE of the party - rather than disregard them.
That is VERY important.