NY-23

Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23, has conceded a final defeat to Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) in a statement that calls for more monitoring of the state’s election system.
“Since the morning of November 4th, many of my supporters have asked me to challenge the outcome of this race,” said Hoffman. “Their concerns centered [...]

David Hart has the scoop: The National Organization for Marriage spent more than $100,000 on get-out-the-vote efforts for the failed (yes, really) campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23. NOM’s work for Hoffman — it also paid for hand-outs distributed by the Susan B. Anthony List — was a minor blow to [...]

As the NY-23 absentee ballot count moves into districts that were won by Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), his lead is growing over Conservative Party challenger Doug Hoffman. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Owens now leads by 3,096 votes with 3,105 absentee ballots left to count. That represents a boost to the Owens lead since [...]

A moment I nearly missed, from last night’s Sarah Palin appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show:

HANNITY: Look, you supported [Conservative Party candidate] Doug Hoffman in the New York 23. And when you did that, though, it was a big jolt to his campaign. As a matter of fact, according to the latest numbers [...]

So what is defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman doing by casting doubt on the results of the NY-23 special election? The most obvious answer, suggested by that letter, is fundraising. It was an expensive race, and Hoffman put some of his own cash on the line, so that makes sense. Why, though, make claims [...]

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing “ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party” of tampering with the election.
Hoffman’s getting some brushback from local Republicans. George Williams, chairman of the Oswego County Republicans, says Hoffman’s wrong and says the [...]

There’s not much to report in the NY-23 absentee ballot count, where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman continues to gain votes at a much, much slower rate than he needs to pull off the win. The Watertown Daily Times reports that Hoffman trailed Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) by 2,940 votes with only 5,570 ballots to [...]

Notwithstanding analyses of the remaining ballots in the NY-23 special election, which suggest that Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) will solidify his win, defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is still talking about an upset.

I see that Doug Hoffman has “un-conceded” in the NY-23 special election after some prodding from Glenn Beck. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party candidate, the absentee ballot count so far points to a victory for Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.). The key problem for Hoffman: Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate who was forced out of the [...]

Doug Hoffman, he failed Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election is clearly relishing the surprise twist in his election – errors in the count that have put him only around 3,000 votes behind his opponent, Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), with around 6,000 absentee ballots outstanding. He appeared on Fox News last week to [...]