Blog

Mar 12, 2009

POLITICO: Murphy with the momentum

POLITICO: Democrats appear to have momentum in the closely-watched New York special election that will be held later this month. Democrat Scott Murphy has dramatically closed the lead that Republican Jim Tedisco once held in the race for Kirsten Gillibrand's old House seat, according to a new Siena poll. The poll shows Tedisco only leading Murphy by four points, 45 to 41 percent, with independent voters favoring Murphy by a six-point margin. That's a sharp change from …