Wow, That Was Quick: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race
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I think my predictions for the special election in New York’s 23rd district are pretty safe now:
Republican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her bid in next Tuesday’s NY 23 special election, a huge development that dramatically shakes up the race. She did not endorse either of her two opponents — Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman or Democrat Bill Owens.
The decision to suspend her campaign is a boost for Hoffman, who already had the support of 50 percent of GOP voters, according to a newly-released Siena poll, and is now well-positioned to win over the 25 percent of Republicans who had been sticking with Scozzafava.
Heh. Dierdre “Dede” Scozzafava must have been reading Big Lizards. In our previous post, I made my predictions quite explicit:
You may or may not have read it here first, but I think I might have been the first among all those blogs I personally follow — that would be three, counting Big Lizards — to flatly predict that:
- The race will, in the next couple of days, come down to a two-way between Doug Hoffman and Bill Owens;
- And that Hoffman will win — and win convincingly. Perhaps not with an outright majority, unless Scozzafava sees the “mene mene” on the wall and drops out; but a solid victory of 5-8 points over Owens, with Scozzafava in third by double-digits.
As usual, when Big Lizards predicts, we invite everyone to track our predictions and see if we know what we’re talking about… or whether we fall flat on our egg.
Cross-posted to Hot Air’s rogues’ gallery…
