For all you doughty Delaware County Democrats, Scott Murphy will be attending the County Democratic Committee meeting tomorrow night at 7:00 at Sanford Hall on the SUNY Delhi campus. He's going to be opening his campaign office on Main Street at 5:30 as well. Both events open to the public. In the last 2 elections cycles, we didn't quite pull Delaware County into Kirsten's column, but we did better than Democrats have done in the county since the 1930s! Time to keep that momentum.
This is a lightning speed campaign. Couple that with the notoriously low turnout in off year elections, and you get a picture where a really energized base will be enough to keep this seat in Democratic hands. The 20th may not exactly be 'Vermont West' to use Jim Dean's phrase, but it's not rockbound conservative country by a long shot. For all the traditional Republicanism of the region, (in 1895 upstater Harold Ferderick mused that he had never met a Democrat,) the talk in country stores is pro Obama, pro stimulus package and disgust with Republican obstructionism.
This is Scott's stand. We can win this one PROVIDED we are willing to work our butt's off. Aux Barricades!