May. 14, 2011 3:37 AM ET GOP budget, Medicare plan influence NY House race BETH FOUHY, Associated Press
CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. (AP) — The special election to fill a House seat in upstate New York was supposed to be an easy victory for Republicans. But less than two weeks before the May 24 vote, polls show a competitive contest between Republican Jane Corwin, 47, and Democrat Kathy Hochul, 52, in what's become the first electoral test of GOP budget policies. The race also has drawn an avalanche of spending by interest groups, as well as both national parties. "Jane Corwin said she would vote for the 2012 Republican budget that would essentially end Medicare," says a TV ad for Hochul, underscoring the degree to which the national debate in Washington is framing this race. Corwin hits back in her own ad, saying Hochul "refuses to tell us her plan to cut the deficit." Until recently, Democrats had all but written off the state's 26th congressional district spanning the suburban and rural communities between Rochester and Buffalo. The seat was left vacant in February, when incumbent Republican Rep. Chris Lee resigned after shirtless photos surfaced that he'd sent to a woman he'd met on Craigslist. It's the most conservative district in New York; Republican John McCain carried it by 6 points over President Barack Obama in 2008. And it could be eliminated next year when the state loses two seats as lawmakers redraw congressional lines as required by law following the 2010 Census. But this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it would spend $250,000 on ads to help Hochul, the Erie County clerk. The campaign committee had already contributed about $100,000 to Hochul for research and other campaign operations. The House Majority PAC, a new independent group launched to help House Democrats, announced late Friday it would also begin TV advertising to help Hochul. The GOP isn't taking any chances. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, headlined a fundraiser for Corwin last week, the National Republican Congressional Committee has pledged to advertise and a major GOP-aligned group has gotten involved, too............................>>>>..........................>>>>............................http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAUL.....445aa7184a1080cf93f2
There is also a third candidate who ran and lost in the Republican Primary... Jack Davis is running as an independent, and drawing heavily from the Republican Jane Corwin.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
He's running as a phony Tea Party Candidate and will not fool many people. This seat will stay REP-Jane Corwin by double digits. No one wants another Pelosi vote.
He's running as a phony Tea Party Candidate and will not fool many people. This seat will stay REP-Jane Corwin by double digits. No one wants another Pelosi vote.
May8, poll by PPP: Corwin R 31.0%, Hochul D 35.0%,Davis I 24.0%, April 27 poll by Siena: Corwin (R) 36.0% , Hochul (D) 31.0%,Davis (I) 23.0%
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The same people who claimed what's his name again?...Oh- Murphy- was up by 17 a few weeks before being beaten by Gibson. I think they had Lazio trouncing Palladino by 30 or something a few days before the primary too.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
NY 26 is a slam dunk Republican District... The Republican war against Medicare may lose this district to the Democrats.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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He's running as a phony Tea Party Candidate and will not fool many people. This seat will stay REP-Jane Corwin by double digits. No one wants another Pelosi vote. 
