NY-26: The Ice Storm
What’s better than watching a movie on a Sunday afternoon? Certainly not reading a blog, but for those of you who can’t see a movie and are instead stuck reading this blog, we’re introducing a new feature: Weekend Matinee. Each weekend, we’ll bring you some kind of political news, organized around a cinematic theme. Today’s triple feature is a summary of three local Congressional races.
There are various reasons why Reynolds won this one: Davis didn’t campaign in a normal fashion, NY-26 is a Republican district, and Reynolds spent ungodly amounts of t.v. advertising.
But in the end, I think Reynolds would have lost without the massive snow storm that hit Buffalo in mid-October. I’m not convinced that his blatantly political delivery of the FEMA disaster money helped that much (politically or otherwise), but the storm created a break in the action, a standing eight count, if you will, that allowed Reynolds to regroup without getting hammered for his role in Foleygate and the press conference that will live in infamy (see it here).
I think this quote. sums it up pretty well:
“I think Tom was dead in the water,†former Democratic congressman John J. LaFalce told the Buffalo News. “He needed an act of God to be competitive. And he got an act of God.â€
That was easy. Now onto NY-25 and NY-29.
I agree entirely. Reynolds was the talk politically because of Foley and his STUPID news conference. I know one who stood with his daughter onstage and when I spoke to him later said that it was the dumbest move he every did.