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.
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.”
Did Doug Hoffman give up too soon?
At least one of his campaign staffers thinks that might be true, after revised numbers show the race for Congress is closer than it appeared to be on Election Night.
So, the question: Can Hoffman still win after all the absentee ballots are counted?
Bill Owens’ election last week made a difference by the weekend.
A package of reforms aimed at improving health care coverage for Americans passed the House of Representatives by just 5 votes, 220-215. Owens cast one of those votes to approve the legislation.
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.
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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