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Fulton Daily News

Absentee Count Narrows Hoffman’s Longshot Chances

<p>Doug Hoffman.</p>Absentee ballot totals were announced Tuesday in four of the eleven counties that make up the 23rd Congressional Disrrict.

The result: Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman narrowed the gap with Democrat Doug Owens by just 214 votes as the results from Oneida, Madison, Hamilton and Fulton counties came in. […]

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Oswego Daily News

Hoffman: I’m ‘Unconceding’

<p>Doug Hoffman.</p>Doug Hoffman takes it back.

With the margin of votes between him and Democratic candidate for Congress Bill Owens shrinking, he told conservative radio and TV talk host Glenn Beck Monday that “if I knew this information at the election night, I would not have conceded.” […]

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Oswego Daily News

Owens Wins Race For Congress

Democrat Bill Owens confounded the experts and defied more than a century of history as he won the three way race for Congress from Oswego County and the North Country.

With about 80% of votes counted, Owens held about a 4,000 vote lead.  There are as many as 11,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted and a handful of voting locations across the district had their voting machines sealed for hand counts beginning today. […]

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Oswego Daily News

Siena Poll: Owens Surges Into Lead; Hoffman Popular In Oswego County

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If the 23rd Congressional District race was too close to call the first time the Siena Research Institute took a poll, it’s even harder to call now that they’ve published their second poll of the race.

Democrat Bill Owens has surged into the lead in the race to succeed John McHugh as the Congressman from the North Country but Oswego County residents are taking a liking to Doug Hoffman, the Conservative. […]

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Oswego Daily News

Poll: Race To Replace McHugh Is Wide Open

Lots of folks have made up their minds — at least tentatively — about who they’ll vote for in November to replace John McHugh in Congress.  But the first independent and credible poll of the Congressional special election shows that this race will come down to the decisions of people who don’t know today who they’ll vote for and who may not even know who the candidates are. […]

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Fulton Daily News

Gov. Sets Special Election Date As Candidates For Congress Keep Moving

Gov. David Paterson Tuesday signed a proclamation that marks Nov. 3 as the date for the special election to replace McHugh, who was named Secretary of the Army by President Obama. The date is the same as the regular November elections, a move that will save the 11 counties of the 23rd Congressional District the expense of running a full election for just one office. […]