I received an e-mail from someone working with the Hoffman campaign and he had a few things I should add to my timeline, so I did.
Here’s the update:
On October 15, Siena Research Institute’s polling showed Hoffman rising seven points in 15 days, while Scozzafava dropped five points in the same time, leading Siena pollster Steven Greenberg to write, ““Scozzafava’s seven-point lead has evaporated over the last two weeks, as voters have gotten to know all the candidates better.”
The $116,000 in campaign donations were not for a 24 hour period, as I wrote. They were made from Thursday morning to Thursday evening. They received that much in less than 24 hours.
On October 20th, Chris Cillizza of The Fix reports, “Sources on both sides of the partisan aisle suggest that internal polling shows Scozzafava in third place now.”
On October 21st, Scozzafava decides to give Hoffman some more visibility and conducts a stunt press conference in front of his campaign office. As I noted, it didn’t go well for her. How tired does she look in that photo, by the way?
On October 23rd, Erick Erickson reports “It appears Dede Scozzafava is funneling RNC, NRCC, and donor dollars through her campaign account to her family.”
On the 25th, the NRCC once again stands behind the most liberal candidate in the race and against the most conservative. Not one red cent.
I went ahead and updated the timeline with these, so please feel free to e-mail it around to conservatives and establishment Republicans. Especially establishment Republicans.
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