A couple of hours ago I was looking at the Wikipedia page covering the red hot special election in NY-23. New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009
The R2K poll earlier today shows this is a toss-up between Owens (D) and Hoffman (I), with the Republican candidate in last place. NY-23: Hoffman surges at Scozzafava's expense
I just now referred to the Wiki page again looking for something I had read that had caught my eye, and couldn't find what I thought I had seen.
Wondering if that page had been changed, I checking in the edit history and found that what I was earlier looking at had been changed in just the past few minutes.
This was deleted:
Hoffman had sought the Republican nomination. In July, when Scozzafava was nominated instead, he offered to help her. His email to her read: "Hi Dede, Congratulations and the best of luck in your candidacy. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Doug."[27] Shortly thereafter, however, he contacted Conservative Party leaders, seeking support for his own candidacy.[28] Hoffman later stated, "I never promised that I would support Dede Scozzafava."[27] One Republican leader said that Hoffman, while seeking the Republican nomination, had "repeatedly" pledged to support the nominee.[29]
And replaced with:
Hoffman had sought the Republican nomination.
Some pretty embarrassing stuff for the Hoffman campaign that was deleted. Stuff I'm sure Hoffman would rather keep buried.
Here's the URL to for that old deleted entry information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Maybe these are all legit revisions by Wikipedia editors? And not by the Hoffman campaign or supporters? I don't know enough about Wikipedia's policies to know.
And since Wiki is dynamic, who knows how that page might be revised over the next week, through election day.
I just thought it was very interesting.