Republicans are now insisting that Scozzafava was not a centrist, but an outright
liberal.

Well, OK: the Democrat got 49% of the vote, and the liberal Scozzafava got over
5%. That means that 54+% of the vote want to the more liberal candidates, in this
historically Republican district, even with all of Palin’s “help”.

Looks like the liberal trend is clear, at least in this locality.

(But then there was the Maine thing, so I don’t know what to think, really.)

This was really a dopey race.  Scozzafava withdrew from the race and gave her support to the Democratic candidate, but in effect she almost gave the election to the conservative republican.  If she didn’t still get 5% of the vote, Hoffman probably would have won.  If she so oppose Hoffman, then she should have stayed in the race and split the republican vote assuring a democratic win hands down!  I guess it’s true what they say about upstate New Yorkers!!!

Hoffman lost the election but he won the ideological power struggle.  Dem strategists and truthers don’t consider that important because all they are concerned with is winning elections.  But peace supporters should be because the Dem will lose the next election in a overwhelming Gop district in two years, and guess who is going to be the long time Congressman for them in the coming decades.

This makes me think of the late Frederick Exley. I wonder what he would have said after witnessing his fellow upstate citizens decide that a candidate who doesn’t even live in the district, get rejected by the voters, despite receiving a ringing endorsement from that great geographic expert, the former Governor of Alaska.