| I live a few miles from the NY-24/NY-29 border, and I worked pretty hard on both races. Good thing that, I guess. I am quite confident that we will pull both these out-- we lead in both. But, neither Republican intends to concede until after absentee ballots are counted.
Arcuri's race is at the Utica Dispatch:
One-term incumbent Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, appeared late Tuesday to have a nearly 6,000 vote lead over Republican Richard Hanna - 118,137 to 112,308, according to unofficial election results from across the 11-county district.
Massa's race can be read about at The Corning Leader for the more conservative approach, or, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle for the "he won already" approach. DKos has the final numbers as:
Massa- 131,646
Kuhl- 127,232
Meanwhile, Rottenchester has this excellent post over at The Fighting 29
In case you missed it last night, Sean Carroll of WHAM reported that Amo Houghton and Eric Massa met last night:
Sean Carroll: Just got done talking Amo Houghton - and he just got here after visiting with Eric Massa!
Evan Dawson: Sean -- WOW WOW WOW. And why was he with Massa?
Sean Carroll: said he respects him - "stands for the right things" even though he's on the other side of the aisle. said he's still pulling for Randy, but after all "we're all Americans"
Amo Houghton would have racked up another 60/40 or 70/30 win last night against almost any Democrat, probably with my vote. If Republicans want to come back in New York State, they need to take a serious look at what Amo did right and what Randy Kuhl did wrong.
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