Did Doug Hoffman Actually Win the NY-23 Special Election? If So, Does It Actually Matter?
Narrowing margin in post-election canvass raises hopes for GOP/Conservatives, but recent Republican-set precedent may well dash that hope...

A potentially interesting situation is underway in New York's 23rd Congressional district where post-election canvassing of the recent Special Election for the U.S. House is still underway.

According to Syracuse's Post-Standard, the post-election canvass shows the race between Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who conceded on Election Night, and Democratic candidate Bill Owens, who was sworn in as the district's new U.S. Congressman last Friday, to be tightening as results are double-checked, errors are being found, and a few thousand absentee ballots are still uncounted.

But whether or not it's found that Hoffman received more votes than Owens, will it actually matter, given the hard-fought precedent that Republicans established in 2006 in a very similar election?...

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