Considering Hoffman only entered the race a month ago, that he is a political novice and that he was representing a party with little or no infrastructure, he did damn well.
I hope those idiotic pubs who chose scuzzy over Hoffman or one of the other potential candidates learned their lesson and that others with the same penchant took notice.
I figure the pub party has next year as their last chance to hang onto the base. If they don’t get the message, they will know nothing but darkness for the rest of their political days, which will definitely be numbered. I think most are willing to work with them, but we’ve supported them long enough. They need to make a major move in our direction or prepare themselves for oblivion.
Obama can point to NY-23 as a reason to pass immediately his “health care” bill. He can say VA and NJ were about state matters, but when it comes to his socialist program, NY proves the American people are on board ad infinitum. People do want these unfree “free” things.
In retrospect, Newton Gingrich may have been partially right about NY-23, when he said it would never vote conservative. People there are not hard-core leftists, but they have been conditioned to see government as the first path to “solving” many “non-problems”.