It's a hell of an achievement when you think about it. The teabaggers took a seat that had been in Republican hands longer than anyone on the face of the Earth has been alive and lost it. Then, in a brilliant and shrewd maneuver of towering genius, managed to lose it all over again just two weeks later.
It's over. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, leads by 3,105 votes with 3,072 absentee ballots left to be counted.
