Bill Owens is certainly doing well, and doing the things he needs to do to be the first Democrat to go to the House from this part of NY-23 since the early 1850’s. He was losing a lot of lean-Democratic independents and some party members to Dede Scozzafava, but her campaign is so inept that he is winning many back. Nevertheless, I feel unsettled, and I think a lot of progressives and even MOR Democrats are similarly uncomfortable.
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