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mak3cats Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-11 08:09 AM
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An interesting observation from here in NY-26:
Last evening, I drove from downtown Buffalo to my sister's house in the suburb of Clarence, which is where both Republican Jane Corwin and Teabagger-Republican Jack Davis also live. (Democrat Kathy Hochul lives in the suburb of Hamburg, approximately 20 miles from Clarence.) Not counting the political signs all three campaigns have plastered on street corners, and including only the ones on actual front lawns, Hochul's signs outnumbered Corwin's by a margin of 5 to 3 (I saw NO Davis signs). My sister says there used to be a lot more Corwin signs and few Hochul ones, but the balance has been shifting of late. Considering this is home turf for the Republican candidates, I'm taking this as a very good indication of how things might turn out on May 24th...

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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-11 10:50 AM
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1. Even though it is my neighboring district
I am not sure what is going on, especially with Davis. Davis of course has run often as a Dem. Even if Teabaggers have an addiction for rich guys and losers how in blazes did he ever get(buy) an endorsement? Doesn't this guy ever go broke from campaign debt in losing efforts(no surprise he can't afford signs)? I am willing to bet even perennial Davis voters are fed up with his efforts by this point. Any rightwingers out there are must be unconvinced or unenthused. Probably some overfunded coffee clutch teabaggers got bamboozled by Davis into a nationally unapproved endorsement? If this is supposed to be in revenge against the Dems for dumping him it pushes the GOP candidate to the unpopular right besides any splitting of the votes(which I think will be marginal).

Any votes Davis gets will likely be extremely small, but it pushes the GOP to implode itself with obnoxious hypocrisies.
You can't always go by yard signs in a general election but it seems a good sign in a special election when GOP voters must be significantly turned off. Maybe Davis is just one of those guys the GOP can rely upon to help Dems lose in this somewhat more opportune district.
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-11 11:12 AM
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2. Maybe it's a little taste of "Operation Chaos"..Democratic style!
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