Was NY-23 a defeat for Limbaugh, Beck, Palin? The Right Wingnuts led by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Malkin lost their self-selected signpost election the 23rd Congressional District in New York. The ultra-conservative Republican candidate Doug Hoffman conceded to Democrat Bill Owens just about a half-hour ago.
Owens gained 49 percent of the vote, versus 46 percent for Hoffman, and six percent for Dede Scozzafava, who's name was still on the ballot, even though she dropped out of the race.
That the 23-rd District of New York is Democratic country didn't seem to phase these Couch Potato Conservatives.
This race saw the original Republican challenger Dede Scozzafava back out of the race under extreme pressure from within her own party and the Right Wingnut fringe. They - led by media pundits Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Malkin - hand picked Doug Hoffman as the man who would save them. With their withering communications drumbeat, Hoffman rose from nowhere in the polls to the point of being considered the front runner before tonight's election.
Source: Zennie62 (blog) at SF Gate
N.Y. District 23 ---- 93% reporting
Bill Owens (Dem.) --- 63,496 --- 49.3%
Doug Hoffman (Con.) --- 58,161 --- 45.2%
Dede Scozzafava (Rep.) --- 7,137 --- 5.5%
Source: NY Times
First of all, why does some socialist whacko blogger Zennie62 come up as lead "news” results for a Google News search for "NY-23 election results"?
Were all the election results a referendum on Obama and his policies?
Probably Not.
Were the NY-23 results a defeat of Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin and Palin?
No.
I heard that NY-23 was a conservative district and when republicans won, the candidate was supported by both the Conservative and Republican parties. This time the NY-23 Republican leaders hand picked the liberal Scozzafava. Limbaugh et.al. did NOT hand pick Hoffman.
Thanks to the inept handling of the ecomony by Obama, the 7,000 Scozzafava voters were too busy earning a living to be aware that Scozzafava was a liberal. If Hoffman had been nominated by the Conservative and Republican parties, Hoffman would have been elected.
Pelosi and the other socialists are lying when they say this is the first time NY-23 has been in democrat hands since the civil war.
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1 comments:
crow!? lol, did you see the final results? Hoffman was a lot closer to winning that race as a last minute entry with no party support.. and with the republican selected candidate throwing in for the dem.. All I can say is this was no reason for the liberals to crow.
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