“Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee in a key upcoming House special election, is running dangerously low on campaign cash, according to several GOP sources familiar with her spending and fundraising.”
Interestingly the article goes on to say that the RNC has sent only two staffers and hasn’t contributed a cent to the race. Owens is outspending her 12-1. Even Hoffman has spent more. The NRCC is trying to make up the difference but even they have been overtaken by the DCCC.
“Despite a recent poll showing the GOP nominee with a 7-point lead over Owens, the spending disparity has many Republicans downbeat about her prospects.”
I have to say I’m surprised at this. You would think the RNC would be flooding cash into the district to try and get a clean sweep of all the big races on November 3. Politico suggests they are concentrating on the gubernatorial races but that seems dubious at best. Maybe they just don’t want her to win. I know I don’t.
http://www.politico.com/news/s…
UPDATE
The Rothenberg Political Report moves the race from Pure Toss-Up to Toss-Up/Tilt Democratic.
A fringe “conservative alternative”, everyone is bashing the Republican, the Republican is having money problems.. I had seen a comment or two refering to her financial troubles, but I had no idea it was this bad! The most damning thing is that she’s had to pull advertising from parts of the district! Those that don’t know her are going to hate her, setting us in a very good position to win these areas. This was great news to wake up to.
Everyone saw, whether true or not, a devious, hands-rubbing-together motive in picking McHugh for Army Secretary, and sure enough it looks like the plan is going to work.
I’m starting to feel a lot better about November 3rd in spite of Team Red winning in my now-home of Virginia. If we can pull out NJ-Gov as looks increasingly likely, and take a GOP-held seat in NY-23, then that will stop the punditry cold from declaring a Republican wave forthcoming next year. I’ll still be depressed if we lose more than a seat or so in the Virginia House or if my Democratic Delegate in HD-34, Margi Vanderhye, doesn’t hang on. But as long as the Virginia House races end up a draw or extremely close to it, I’ll take that and a couple out-of-state victories and be satisfied.
i’m not that excited about owens, but i’m definitely enjoying seeing the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot. anyone know when the next poll of this race will be?
Do they mean the NRCC? I don’t think the RNC/DNC get too involved in federal races like this.
I worry more about the fact that we are getting killed in the other State wide races than Governor. It seems we are going to handily lose all the others too, and that leaves us with no real bench state wide, which is a big worry in state that was trending towards us big time.
Seriously…TWELVE to ONE?!
Watching Plattsburgh TV, Scozzafava is virtually invisible. Owens has a fair number of ads up on air, the Club for Republican Purity (aka Club for Growth) has their ads up on behalf of Hoffman, but I’ve only seen one pro-Scozzafava ad, and only seen that one time. Owens also seems to be doing better in terms of getting local news coverage than the other two.
Driving through Clinton County, I saw a couple of pro-Scozzafava signs, but Owens had her out-signed there significantly (of course he is from Plattsburgh, so this is his home turf).
Maybe things are different in the western parts of the district, but if it isn’t, she is in trouble. There is no way a candidate like Scozzafava can compete in a special election if she can’t get her name out across the district.
Owens is proving to be a better candidate than I thought he would be. Hoffman is gaining a lot of traction, he’ll easily break 20%, probably closer to 30%. I’m feeling much better about a Democratic victory here (and, unlike Kos, that’s what I’m hoping for).
Turning out to not be such a bad November after all. I still can’t believe Corzine is going to win. Holy crap were those poll numbers ridiculously bad over the summer.
The guys at redstate claim to have seen a private GOP poll that shows Owens ahead by double digits. I won’t link, but it’s under their “Dede Scozzafava is toast” frontpage story.
Scozzafava, your diary came up as like the third entry under “news results.” That’s pretty badass. Congratulations, conspiracy, you are a journalist.
would be the worst outcome for progressives for this seat.
I continue to believe that the best outcome would be a Hoffman victory, followed by an Owens win.
Remember, Kos did endorse Scozzafava…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
I “hat tipped” this diary (thank you, conspiracy) in my own.
If someone else wants to try diarying this subject at the great orange satan, feel free to use any or all of what I’ve written. (though I’d appreciate a “hat tip” too)
However, I am willing to vote for Hoffman, if that is the only way Scozzfava can be defeated.
We need to make sure that moderates are marginalized in NY GOP.
Then we would have little trouble defeating them all in future elections.