Race for 23rd NY Congressional District

Watertown Daily Times ^ | 3 Nov 2009 | anonymous

[docbnj]

First returns, Clinton Co: Owens 103 Scozzafava 8 Hoffman 340

[GQuagmire]

N.Y. District 23
N.Y. District 23 Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Bill Owens Dem. 45,654 49.3%
Doug Hoffman Con. 42,142 45.5
Dede Scozzafava Rep. 4,876 5.3

[LikeLight]

Erickson at Redstate tweeting that Hoffman’s people now think he’s got it won. Results tracking their sampling.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Liberal Clinton County vote is just about in...lots of rural Republican areas still out there."

Man, I'm praying for you to be right. Crossing fingers just in case too.

[PhiKapMom]

Fox News just covered this and said Hoffman workers are not concerned because most of their areas they have a long way to drive to bring in their ballot boxes. Dem areas are in first and rural Republican areas are just coming in.

[lookout88]

something is not right here.

[nutmeg]

(Hoffman) Down 3.8% with 62% reporting.

PLEASE... someone cheer me up. Will Hoffman win this race? Are RED precincts the last to report in?

[Frantzie]

Doug is within 1300 votes.

[Frantzie]

Doug is within 1300 votes.

[GQuagmire]

63% reporting N.Y. District 23
N.Y. District 23 Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Bill Owens Dem. 46,646 49.3%
Doug Hoffman Con. 42,958 45.4
Dede Scozzafava Rep. 4,989 5.3

[Boiling Pots]

I hope this is true. Thanks for the update.

[PhiKapMom]

Guess the Republican counties are pretty spread out and it takes a long drive to get their ballot boxes in to be counted which is why the Hoffman people are sure they are going to win this race.

We are about to get a trifecta!

[who knows what evil?]

...and we all thought that fraud was going to be an issue in New Jersey. Who would’a thunk?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes. Precisely. My take is that it will even out, and then reverse (in Doug’s favor) in about 45-60 minutes time or less from now. It will be a squeaker, maybe even 49% Doug to the LibDem’s 47% with 4% for the DIABLO Fat Lady who will be forced to sing.

[cmj328]

Take the #’s in my post #141 with a big grain of salt. According to one site, now there are over 3 times the votes with only 5% more precincts reporting. I’m assuming that the counties aren’t reporting the full stats on the web yet.

[PhiKapMom]

They just had the report from Hoffman HQ. Sounds like a very large area for a Congressional district in miles.

[MacMattico]

Local news has Hoffman down by only 1600 votes, Oswego county uncounted, their BOE site is down. Only about 80,000 votes counted, expected turn out about 150,000. All depends on what areas have been counted. Also, the republican candidate has about 4500 votes,which more then covers the difference, I know a lot of the “R” votes are from uninformed voters that didn’t know the situation... local news now also reporting voting difficulties in St. lawrence county, there won’t be any vote count tonight... also “problems” in Plattsburgh, vote count will be “slow” (this is Owens home base, imagine that.)

[liberlog]

I think it’s a mistake to take the position any time we lose that it had to be fraud. Anyway, Hoffman hasn’t lost.

[who knows what evil?]

Dem areas are in first and rural Republican areas are just coming in.

Agreed...lots of isolated areas in the Adirondacks.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...— NY23 is about Sarah Palin and Sarah Palin alone."

Yep. Hence the concern about ACORNs.

[RockinRight]

This is a physically HUGE district - about as big as the entire northern third of the state.