Hoffman lacks votes to catch Owens ((NY-23)

[brooklynite]

Source: Watertown Daily Times

The race for the 23rd Congressional District is finally, mathematically, over.

Rep. William L. Owens could lose all 3,072 absentee ballots left to be counted and still win the race.

Mr. Owens led the race by 3,176 votes after the 11 counties' boards of elections recanvassed the machine vote. The Plattsburgh Democrat has ceded just 71 votes of his lead back to Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman during absentee ballot counting this week.

Read more: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091120/NEWS03/311209950

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Bad! Bad ACORN!

[onehandle]

1. Go ACORN!

All according to plan.

Next, we take their guns.

[MNDemNY]

4. I thought we were rigging the census, first?

[Winterblues]

7. Don't forget make all the men turn gay..

It is all beginning to unfold according to plan..

[onehandle]

11. Silly, you can't make men turn gay.

But you can make them gay marry after you take their guns.

[sabrina 1]

12. Lol, ACORN is all-powerful

in the fevered brains of rightwingnut dummies.

[michreject]

19. You really think so?

I wouldn't bet on it.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Let the wailing & gnashing of teeth commence!

I'm conflicted. One the one hand, I'm glad that the election is finally resolved, but on the other, I'm saddened that we didn't get to extract the last drip of wingnutty douchebaggery from this sideshow clown circus. I was hoping to point & laugh a bit longer.

[napi21]

3. I wonder who talked him into un-conceeding? He looks like

an idiot now, more than he did before!

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Whine." - Republicon Homelanders Against America

As usual.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. First you concede, then you unconcede, then you reconcede

It's like being a regifter, then a degifter, then trying to parlay an upstairs invite into a Super Bowl sex romp.

HOFFMAN is...

TIM WHATLEY!

[FSogol]

13. All of this is just posturing for fund raising purposes.

Hoffman is fleecing the RW Rubes.

[DeSwiss]

8. Re-conceding is SO embarrassing.....

- K&R!

[Plucketeer]

9. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... This is TERRIBLE NEWS!

I'm always pullin' for the underdunce! :rofl: Palin pulls yet another rat out of her hat!

[NBachers]

10. The Commissar is sure to place a city under Mr. Owens' direct control

to do what he wants with the population . . . including their Wives and Daughters!

[Roland99]

14. The demographics of the largest town in the 23rd District: 89.13% White

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown,_New_York

As of the census<1> of 2000, there were 26,705 people, 11,036 households, and 6,500 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,981.3/sq mi (1,150.8/km²). There were 12,450 housing units at an average density of 1,389.9/sq mi (536.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 89.13% White, 4.95% Black or African American, 0.54% Native American, 1.16% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 2.45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.59% of the population.

...

The median income for a household in the city was $28,429, and the median income for a family was $36,115. Males had a median income of $31,068 versus $21,294 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,354. About 14.4% of families and 19.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.2% of those under age 18 and 11.8% of those age 65 or over.

[Mr. Sparkle]

15. Has he conceded his un-concession of his original conceding yet?

and made Glenn Beck cry !!

[shadowknows69]

16. He's actively asking for donations for a recount still apparently.

According to News 10 now. Official results should be certified by the 28th. Claiming ACORN was involved in him losing.

[brooklynite]

17. Don't forget the UNIONS! They were in on it too!

And the Democratic Party! And the establishment Republican Party! and the Liberal Media! and.....

[shadowknows69]

18. Yeah because the Dems are so powerful up here.

The Republicans have owned this area since time immemorial. So we must have cheated. No sorry Dougie. You got NADERIZED by Dede.

[katkat]

20. ultra liberal media

So, I was reading along in a blog I follow, a nice cozy blog about farm life, when suddenly the owner posts a raving screed out of nowhere about "the ultraliberal media" (you know who you are, apparently, New York Times) and how the crazy Democrats look down on people like her because Obama calls them "folks", and other such stuff that made my brain hurt, and twenty odd people chimed in. Then I replied and oops, I'm now banned from that blog :-)

So I am wondering what she'd think of the real ultra liberal media if she actually read any of that :-)

[No Elephants]

21. K & R (with mixed feelings). According to DUers, the Republican woman was more liberal than Owens.

[quiller4]

22. On some issues, that is true, but they had few differences and

a number of co-endorsements from liberal groups.