Repiblican Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of race.

[Dr.Dudd]

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Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of N.Y. Congressional Race

Republican Dede Scozzafava endorses Democrat Bill Owens in the race for New York's 23rd Congressional District, one day after dropping out of the race.


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Congressional candidates in New York's 23rd district: Democrat Bill Owens, Conservative Party Dan Hoffman, and Republican Dede Scozzafava. (AP)
Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.

Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman.

But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement sent out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

&quot;I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same,&quot; she said. &quot;In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first.&quot;

Hoffman and Owens are competing for the 23rd Congressional District seat formerly held by Republican John McHugh, who was lured away by the Obama administration to be Army secretary.

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[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Repiblican Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of race.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"> Fox and the rest of the Rethugs, must place a bounty on her head for this.
I predicted the implosion months ago. Her it comes. </span>

[foolya]

Re: Repiblican Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of race.

First i ever hear one side endorses the opposite. what's going on?

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Repiblican Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of race.

The result of infighting within the Republican party, between the racist Klan and the rightist wing.
Since 68 when the Democratic President and democratic co

ngress passed the Civil Rights bill.
the Klandestine wing of the Democratic party switched sides and have since joined the Republican Party.

Well they have had their way for a while and as soon as they try to institute too much of their policies, the general population vote against the party.

So after the last thrashing of the party due to the prominence of the Klandestines policies,the Right Wing.. decide they have taken enough.

And decide that if the party is going to return to power they have to promote their policies instead of the Klandestine wing's .

Well they Klandestine wing has been fighting ever since. they develop strategies like the TEA BAGGIBNG frauds..The mercenary Limpballs, and BUCK BECK,complete with Fox and other instruments of political machinery headed by the Australian born owner.

Well they chose a candidate and support the candidate with the political machinery,of the Australian group.

It cause raucous to the point where the chairman of the GOP ask the GOP candidate to withdraw. Well she decide that she would rather a Demrat win that the Klandestine candidate.

So that is the short of it.
And it is only the beginning. Since a lot of registered Republicans are willing to abandon the party and join the Democrats.
the Klandistines are relying on independents.
well most of the independents vote Demotaric most of the time.
So.... the .<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: foolya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">First i ever hear one side endorses the opposite. what's going on? </div></div>

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Repblican Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of race.

Tea Party Express jubilant as Scozzafava exits in NY-23
Scozzafava’s departure is a blow to the establishment GOP. But the latest development in upstate New York’s special congressional race also means ‘outsiders’ clearly are viable in US politics.

By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer/ October 31, 2009 edition
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After dramatically dropping behind in three-way polling, embattled New York Republican Dede Scozzafava jumped ship Saturday in the hotly-contested NY-23 congressional election scheduled for Tuesday.

That leaves the door wide open for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, supported by national Republican figures like Sarah Palin and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, to take on Democrat challenger Bill Owens in a head-to-head special election in the historically Republican enclave.

Scozzafava “released” her endorsements on Saturday as she suspended her campaign, effectively dropping out. Pressure on her to bow out had increased as Mr. Hoffman quickly overtook her in the polls as national conservatives — as well as out of town volunteers — joined the fray. One fear was that Hoffman and Scozzafava would split the conservative vote, allowing a Democrat to take NY-23 for the first time since the 19th century.

More critically, Scozzafava’s decision is a sure sign that disaffected conservatives, symbolized by this summer’s national Tea Party protests and heated healthcare town halls, are surging across the US, forcing the Obama administration to rejigger election day expectations in key races in Virginia, New Jersey, and now New York.

But the Republican party, too, appears in disarray. The GOP, with the approval of Beltway philosophers like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, had picked the socially liberal Scozzafava over the more libertarian Hoffman as its candidate, saying a moderate would stand a better chance of winning upstate New York. Judging by Saturday’s news, the Beltway Republicans were wrong.

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder had this to say: “Republicans will derive two lessons from the results of this race. One is that the activist base of the party is becoming increasingly powerful in the one area that had eluded them: candidate selection. Democrats, believing that Republicans will conservatize-themselves to death demographically, will take this as a positive trend for the long-term. The second lesson is that populist, regular guy candidates win in supposedly ‘moderate’ districts.”

He adds: “The race had become a proxy for debates about the future of the party. Since the situation in NY-23 is so unusual, it may be folly to squeeze out more meaning than’s already present.”

John Hinderaker at Powerline Blog has a different view of Scozzafava’s decision: “It is not clear that Scozzafava’s withdrawal will help Hoffman, as by this point most of her support may well be coming from voters who are more closely aligned, ideologically, with Owens. Still, if Hoffman can win on Tuesday, it will be viewed as a watershed movement in the resurgence of conservatism.”

But the impact of those candidacies on the high-profile contests points to an anti-incumbent, anti-establishment sentiment that could be a prevailing theme in the 2010 congressional elections and beyond.

“What it says is the public is looking for less self-interested parties and candidates who can reflect the needs of a very frustrated public,” said Douglas Astolfi, a history professor at Florida’s St. Leo University. “We have two wars and we’re in a recession that neither party seems to address in any positive way. There’s a deep sense that government has abandoned the common man. People are frustrated and angry.”

The Twitterati, of course, went wild.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report