Jan 19 2010

Coakley’s Titanic Ride

When New York-23 House candidate Doug
Hoffman surged in the polls, to knock
pseudo Republican Dede Scozzafava
out of the race, the White House and the Democratic
National Committee asked AFL-CIO and SEIU officials to carpet
bomb the upstate New York district in get out the vote efforts [...]

Dec 3 2009

Beware of Overconfidence

Conservatives are feeling their oats right now. Yet we
should beware. Overconfidence is a real danger to the cause. It’s
a danger that is threatening to break out throughout the
conservative movement.

Yes, Barack Obama’s poll numbers are down. Yes, the
Democratic Congress is vastly unpopular, and leaders Nancy [...]

Nov 3 2009

Fred Thompson Draws Larger Crowd than Joe Biden Does in NY-23

Watertown, N.Y.
On Monday night at the agricultural society exhibition hall in town, former Senator Fred Thompson and conservative congressional candidate Doug Hoffman held a rally that appeared to be at least 50 percent larger than Joe Biden’s and Democratic candidate Bill Owens’s rally this morning (the New York Times notes the Thompson-Hoffman crowd was “significantly [...]

Oct 30 2009

NY-23: Hoffman Leads - and Now It Looks Like He Really Does!

Politico now reports new polling in the NY-23 special election that shows that the previous poll by the Club for Growth, which we talked about in an earlier post, was no fluke: Even the Daily Kos’s polling now sees a huge surge towards conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in the last week before Tuesday’s vote.
And [...]