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

[Joe Republic]

Has Davis indicated who he'll caucus with if elected?

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I'm pretty sure he said he'd caucus with the Republicans.

[Joe Republic]

I'm pretty sure he said he'd caucus with the Republicans.

Jack Davis is on his own specially-made "Tea Party" ticket.

It was a stupid question.  Sorry.

Edit:  Though it does make this an odd statement:

That comparison really can't be applied to NY-26 because Davis takes away votes nearly equally from Corwin and Hochul. There was a clear split field between Case and Hanabusa where both candidates split the Democratic vote nearly equally. Notice that Hochul has better favorable ratings than Corwin and that voters only barely prefer a Republican over a Democrat, I think Hochul would be leading Corwin even with Davis out of the trace.

If anything, if Davis voters were forced to pick between Corwin and Hochul, I'd expect them to chose Hochul by a decent margin.

[JacobNC]

Kathy Hochul kind of gave some dodgy answers on Hardball last night.  It's understandable, she probably wasn't expecting them, but I got a mixed reaction to her.

[Meeker]

Kathy Hochul kind of gave some dodgy answers on Hardball last night.  It's understandable, she probably wasn't expecting them, but I got a mixed reaction to her.

She's just some random county official from Western New York; most would do pretty poorly if thrown on to Hardball.

[Verily]

I'm pretty sure he said he'd caucus with the Republicans.

Jack Davis is on his own specially-made "Tea Party" ticket.

It was a stupid question.  Sorry.

Edit:  Though it does make this an odd statement:

That comparison really can't be applied to NY-26 because Davis takes away votes nearly equally from Corwin and Hochul. There was a clear split field between Case and Hanabusa where both candidates split the Democratic vote nearly equally. Notice that Hochul has better favorable ratings than Corwin and that voters only barely prefer a Republican over a Democrat, I think Hochul would be leading Corwin even with Davis out of the trace.

If anything, if Davis voters were forced to pick between Corwin and Hochul, I'd expect them to chose Hochul by a decent margin.

Davis is a wacky former Democrat who has run campaigns in the area in the past on the Democratic ticket. His signature issue is opposition to immigration, which, in an area where the Democrats are all in unions while the Republicans are all wealthy or small farmers, probably appeals more to Democratic voters.

[Nation]

If we win this, does it count as payback for Scott Brown?

No, that would require something far more drastic, like a Senator Matheson or Freudenthal.

Senator Matheson! Wouldn't that be something. That's even more extreme than Brown winning originally -- after all, MA has had Republican Governors in the last decades -- I don't think Utah's elected statewide Democrats.

[Nation]

Kathy Hochul kind of gave some dodgy answers on Hardball last night.  It's understandable, she probably wasn't expecting them, but I got a mixed reaction to her.

She's just some random county official from Western New York; most would do pretty poorly if thrown on to Hardball.

You pretty much got it. And for the most part, local news in WNY doesn't care about personality (unless it's Paladino) as opposed to actual policies, even if the questions are softballs. Matthews is goddamn crazy, and cares more about the horse race of politics than policies.

[ZuWo]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Sure didn't help Bob Etheridge, that's for sure.

[Joe Republic]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Gotta love the comically melodramatic reaction from the obnoxious cameraman.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Gotta love the comically melodramatic reaction from the obnoxious cameraman.

I GOT HIT SO HARD I CAN'T STOP SHAKING MAYBE IT CAUSED A SEIZUREEEEEEEEEE

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Sure didn't help Bob Etheridge, that's for sure.

Yeah, but Davis smacked down a Librul!!!

[Meeker]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Sure didn't help Bob Etheridge, that's for sure.

Yeah, but Davis smacked down a Librul!!!

Apparently it was Corwin's Chief of Staff behind the camera.

Not sure when CoS's started spending their time being trackers though.

[Verily]

If we win this, does it count as payback for Scott Brown?

No, that would require something far more drastic, like a Senator Matheson or Freudenthal.

Senator Matheson! Wouldn't that be something. That's even more extreme than Brown winning originally -- after all, MA has had Republican Governors in the last decades -- I don't think Utah's elected statewide Democrats.

Not recently, but the state was once a Democratic stronghold and was a swing state for a long time. (This was actually a political tactic by the Mormon church to gain influence--if they were perceived as a swing state, they would get more political attention, so they had religious leaders in different parts of the state endorse different parties. That practice ended when the Democrats backed civil rights, though, because back then the Mormons weren't sure if black people had souls yet.) Matheson's father was a Democratic Governor of Utah in the 70s and 80s.

[Lunar]

If we win this, does it count as payback for Scott Brown?

No, that would require something far more drastic, like a Senator Matheson or Freudenthal.

Senator Matheson! Wouldn't that be something. That's even more extreme than Brown winning originally -- after all, MA has had Republican Governors in the last decades -- I don't think Utah's elected statewide Democrats.

Not recently, but the state was once a Democratic stronghold and was a swing state for a long time. (This was actually a political tactic by the Mormon church to gain influence--if they were perceived as a swing state, they would get more political attention, so they had religious leaders in different parts of the state endorse different parties. That practice ended when the Democrats backed civil rights, though, because back then the Mormons weren't sure if black people had souls yet.) Matheson's father was a Democratic Governor of Utah in the 70s and 80s.

Even more effective at gaining political influence is to be a swing demographic that can vote 90%+ for either party, but I think only the Hasids are capable of that.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Sure didn't help Bob Etheridge, that's for sure.

Yeah, but Davis smacked down a Librul!!!

Apparently it was Corwin's Chief of Staff behind the camera.

Not sure when CoS's started spending their time being trackers though.

Wasn't Rand Paul's COS playing the role of stalker right after the primary in KY last spring?

[HST1948]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Between Carl Palidino,Chris  Lee, Chris Collins, Byron Brown, whoever the former Niagara Falls mayor was, and Jack Davis it makes me kind of embarrassed to be from Western New York, and I really do love this area.   

[Lief 🗽]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

LOL, that's awesome. The crazy old man has my firmest support.

[Lunar]

Word on the street is that local news is going to tear into Corwin tomorrow.

edit:

http://twitter.com/#!/Redistrict/status/68885027987009536

[DrScholl]

This is getting very interesting.

[Meeker]

Why is she being savaged? For the tracker incident? Or something new?

[JohnnyLongtorso]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/12/starting_trouble_in_ny-26.html

If this really turns out to have been the way it looks in this short video, this could be Jack Davis' 'macaca moment'.

Sure didn't help Bob Etheridge, that's for sure.

Yeah, but Davis smacked down a Librul!!!

Apparently it was Corwin's Chief of Staff behind the camera.

Not sure when CoS's started spending their time being trackers though.

Wasn't Rand Paul's COS playing the role of stalker right after the primary in KY last spring?

It's not a campaign worker, it's her Assembly office Chief of Staff.

[Lunar]

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/05/buffalo-news-to-endorse-hochul/

[Lunar]

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110515/OPINION04/105150309/Hochul-best-sprawling-26th-Congressional-District

http://www.greecepost.com/opinion/x1058163492/Editorial-Congresswoman-Hochul-would-be-best-for-Greece