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FWIW, I subsequently saw photos of the three candidates in NY-23. The Democrat, Owens, is ex-military and looks like a regular guy, healthy and friendly. Hoffman, the Conservative, looks like the geeky accountant he is, only more so, to the point that he looks almost like a plucked chicken. And Scozzafava (the Republican who dropped out and endorsed Owens) looks like she could have been a guest on Jerry Springer if only she was missing more teeth.
It looked to me like the most attractive candidate on appearances was the Dem. I also think - this is me looking north from NYC to a part of the state that I sort of know but not really - that the social conservatism doesn't sit well with people in the North Country. A fiscal conservative without heavy fundie baggage (a GHW Bush type, similar to McHugh, who represented that district for a long time) probably would have won. The one who was closest to that model, oddly enough, was Owens.
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