Hallelujah

Republican in NY House race suspends campaign
By VALERIE BAUMAN (AP)

Fighting plunging support, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava abruptly suspended her campaign Saturday in the 23rd Congressional District special election that has exposed a rift among national factions of the party.
Campaign spokesman Matt Burns said Scozzafava thinks stepping aside is for the best of the party. He said Scozzafava is essentially withdrawing from the race, although her name will remain on Tuesday's ballot.
"It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support," Scozzafava said in a written statement. "Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit."
The announcement comes after a Siena College poll found she was in third place with 20 percent of the vote in the heavily Republican district that has been safe ground for the party for more than 100 years. Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman and Democratic nominee Bill Owens were too close to call with 35 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
The race has pitted conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party against each other in a battle of ideology. The special election in New York's rural north has received national attention as big-name Republicans including Sarah Palin, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson have thrown their support behind Hoffman. Money poured into Hoffman's campaign from all over the country.
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This is great news for all of the conservatives out there. I firmly believe that a third party is the way to go. Having only two options is always going to get us into the same kind of mess we are talking about here, where you can't hardly tell the two parties apart. Hopefully Hoffman will pull this thing off, and get others on board with the third party movement, including Rush Limbaugh, who for some reason with all his brilliance still thinks we should try to remake the republican party. I think that is the wrong approach, I mean how many conservative presidents have we had in the last 50 years, one, maybe two? Get real and get on board with the third party movement!