Posted on 11/03/2010 3:04:57 AM PDT by Chet 99
In the beginning, there was the 23rd district of New York. Sarah Palin shook up a 2009 special election in that district - left vacant when Obama appointed Republican John McHugh secretary of the Army - by endorsing conservative Doug Hoffman. The accountant who lived outside the district and who ran on the Conservative Party line had been discarded by local Republican leaders in favor of moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava.
Hoffman, supported by a flood of outside money, proved to be a spoiler. When it became clear that he was splitting the Republican vote, Scozzafava dropped out and endorsed the Democrat in the race, Bill Owens. He went on to win the seat. Scozzafava endorsed him again this year and Bill Clinton even swung through the 23rd to help get out the Democratic vote. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Owens will win. He has about 73,000 votes right now to Republican challenger Matt Doheny's 68,000, thanks largely to Doug Hoffman, who backed out this year's race too late to get his name off the ballot. He's likely to wrack up nearly 10,000 votes this time. North Country Public Radio's liveblog says supporters at Doheny headquarters are calling Hoffman "all kinds of names" tonight.
Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/02/doug-hoffman-a-spoiler-once-again/#ixzz14DBGbD6S
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
jackass for one....go back to your little life Dougy....
Hoffman took too long before he
Hoffman took too long before he withdrew from the race: After his name was printed on the ballots.
I can’t believe we lost this district again. We lost three races in NY by less than 2% (Doheny/Owens, Buerkle/Maffei and Altschuler/Bishop)
On the positive side, we picked up 5 other Dem districts in NY. Only Ohio and PA had gains this large.
Hoffman has gone from hero to zero in no time flat.
Nitwits, all!
Hoffman is a self serving ego maniac, this was true last year and again this year. He is a scumbag and again plays a spoiler role.
He was always a zero.
Where are his groupies now?
The worst uber lib writers from the worst magazine are lying to you.
This article contains more lies than lines ...
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