The NY-26 Election. Have fun but keep your shirt on.

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I haven't really been following this race.  What ballot lines are each candidate running on?

Hochul has D/WF, Corwin has R/Cons/IP, Jack Davis is on his own specially-made "Tea Party" ticket.

Jack Davis is a joke here.  Even the tea party has bashed him.  The 26th district is historically conservative and I live but a few miles away from it.  Bunch of towns, rural areas, and a large white population.  That entire Lockport-North Tonawanda area has a large Republican population.  Western New Yorkers are used to scandals in the state so, not sure how much that will play into it.

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http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/article417452.ece

This happened to be on the front page when I retrieved the paper this morning.


And this is a drawn out story that's now on page A4 or so.

http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/article417450.ece

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Rothenberg has moved the race to toss-up/lean Democratic. Claims that Davis is deflating but Corwin is not benefiting. Holy crap. Special elections in upstate New York are just unnecessarily cruel to Republicans, no?

Hochul won by a comfortable margin.  Davis only had somewhere in the range of 7-9%.