=In the Scozzafava campaign, waiting for the results of the Sienna poll is a bit like waiting for a diagnosis...You hope for the best and brace for the worst.
Other polls released this week have been grim and her campaign and media supporters have been able to tamp them down as bad or biased sampling.
Sienna is dfferent...Its the indepedent poll that everyone has been quoting...For better or worse, it will be taken as gospel today.
-Here's an idea that I bet Ms. Scozzafava is glad didn't get implemented. GOP insiders say the campaign wanted to have a man in a chicken suit at that dinner in Lowville...They couldn't find anyone to wear it....The idea was her opponents were too chicken to debate.
-Just about everyone says the moment in the campaign when the GOP effort veered off the road was the infamous 911 call on the Weekly Standard reporter.
To a person, operatives and experienced reporters say that was a disaster among many in a campaign that will be remembered for some time to come.
-Last night's TV debate was good optics for Hoffman as he was pictured with the major party candidates...That may be why he steered clear of many debates.....The picture was worth a thousand words. Good thing, because on words, Mr. Hoffman demonstrates he is not a politician. The lack of glibness and specificity hurts in some quarters but frankly his outsider status may help with others.
-The debate, the candidates and the voters were not served by the moderator at WSYR....Dan Cummings seemed intent on being remembered himself for asking tick-tock type questions about why no debates or aren't you just a tool of the people paying for your campaign....It's funny when broadcasters get all sanctimonious about outside money while they salivate over the prospect of getting some of it. A good moderator should not be a participant....He tried and it didn't serve anyone but himself.
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Mayor, once again, you demonstrate your ignorance.
First, do you understand your contradiction that Hoffman lacked glibness and specificity? Hoffman's debate performance was a disaster by any objective standard.
Second, Scozzafava's campaign unravelled long before the 911 call. She was tanking in polls for the previous week and a half and new it. The radical right smelled blood and she played right into their hands by running a disastrous campaign.
Three,I find it stunning that you do not realize that Scozzafava has no chance of winning at this point. Do you not understand that Pataki made his endorsement because he has seen internal poll numbers?
Finally, the moderator of the debate actually did an excellent job. Unlike you, he knew the issues and pressed candidates for their positions.
What scares me more than Doug Hoffman being the new Congressman for the 23rd is that you are the Mayor of its largest city.
Mr Angry
Drop the personal vendetta
and get a grip
Mr. Anonymous
Drop the ignorance
and get a clue
At the end of the day, none of these candidates are that impressive and I stand by the position that we should be thinking about the 2010 election instead. I am quite certain that Hoffman would not have been the second choice of the republican party after Dede. Or the third. Or the fourth. Or even the fifth. He is quite simply a weak candidate, but has become the "none of the above" candidate. Doheny or Maroun would have swept this election of they were on the ticket. Let's put one of them up next year so we can try to keep a North Country candidate in Washington after the redistricting in 2012. Hoffman is is way over his head and I would like to have a candidate I can be proud of.
It's "Siena", for Pete's sake!
Oh, and Hoffman is a big doo doo pants.
Angry: you are showing why alot of people don't like consevative wack jobs.you will come third and like it......Angry: you should try yoga or just vote De De its the right thing for local people.....
All of you! there is no need to get angry. Everyone agrees that it appears the Mayor is often watching a different election. Nothing has changed there.
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