Reply #3: Yes, handily. [View All]

[ThatPoetGuy]

A ten per cent lead is considered a "landslide," so I'd say about a 4.5 per cent lead is winning "handily."

And besides, there are 11,000 absentee votes still to be counted -- all of them came in before Hoffman became famous, all of them came before Scozzafava dropped out. I'd guess 5500 for Scozzafava, 5000 for Owens, less than 500 for Hoffman. That 4.5 percent lead will be closer to a ten per cent landslide by the time the votes are counted.

The best a democrat has done in NY-23 was in 1990, when a dem took 38% of the vote.