Ah, it looks like the New York Times has finally taken notice of the NY-19 race. It looks like ol' Sue is in for one heck of a challenge. I'm glad that they mention Take19, but I wish that they would give a link to the site. BTW, I was at the Westchester County Democrats event in Mount Kisco the other day (it's only a 5-10 minute walk from my house) where Martarano was given the endorsement from Westchester Democrats who live in NY-19 (that means only officials from Northern Westchester were there.) He won mostly because of regional appeal. Aydelott and Hall had the biggest presence in terms of signs, which gives a foreshadowing of who the best candidates may be. Also, I only found out that Aydelott was a former Republican when I read this article. Personally, I don't have a "horse" in the primary, but I would like to see a smaller field before the primary. September is too late to choose a nominee out of a crowded field. If we can narrow it down to 3-4, this could bolster us.
Westchester
In a Vulnerable Year for Republicans, Just How Vulnerable Is Sue Kelly?
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
KATONAH
NEW YORK Democrats are feeling pretty good about themselves these days. And why not?
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer, the leading Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, are trouncing their Republican rivals in the polls. And President Bush is about as popular in these parts as the Boston Red Sox in Yankee Stadium on a crisp October night.
So Democratic leaders can be forgiven, perhaps, for dreaming big. The latest prediction, whispered to any reporter who will listen: a Democratic tide, sweeping as many as six New York Republicans out of the House of Representatives this fall.
A little ambitious, maybe. But Amy Walter, senior editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, says the Democrats' strength at the top of the ticket and the nationwide disenchantment with the president and the Republican Congress have combined to create an unusually favorable set of circumstances for the House of Clinton.
"If you contend that House Republicans are, right now, swimming against a pretty good tide nationally," she said, "in the Northeast it's like Class 5 rapids."
That sort of talk cheers Democratic strategists in Washington, fighting to pick up 15 seats and take control of the House. But it also emboldens local Democrats, like the six vying to unseat Representative Sue W. Kelly here in New York's 19th Congressional District, which stretches from northern Westchester through Putnam County and into parts of Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Counties.
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