Haven't Updated in Awhile...

There just hasn't been too much going on in the news about this race in the past week or two. Ever since the McCain visit in Saratoga things have just been unusually quite quiet in terms of the 20th Congressional race. Gillibrand, though, was cut from the first round of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Red to Blue" funding program. This can either be a good or a bad sign for her campaign - on one hand Gillibrand has been able to raise a significant amount of cash lately through her ties to the Howard Dean-inspired Democracy for America group, so perhaps the DCCC decided that it would be best to spend their cash elsewhere on some less funded candidates in competitve races. On the other hand, many of the races the DCCC opted to continue funding are ranked more competitively than this race in the polls. The DCCC in fact has released internal polling for some of these other races. Surely, the DCCC has done internal polling on the NY-20 race. As a matter of fact, we've gotten phone calls at our house in regards to the 20th Congressional Race. So, why won't they release any of their internal data?

Even if Gillibrand or any of the other Democrats (Pell, Guller, Walters) are badly trailing Sweeney in the polls, I'm still confident at this point that Sweeney can be defeated. Bush's approval ratings are down in the lower 20s here in New York and Pataki's approval ratings are down in the lower 30s. There's definately a lot of anti-incumbent and anti-Republican setiment right now, even here in the 20th Congressional District of New York, one of the few remaining bastions of Republicanism left in the Northeast. After all, why won't John Sweeney even say what party he's a member of in his campaign propaganda?

Meanwhile, I'm in the process of updating my website about John Sweeney's record. The last place I hosted my website with recently shut down their servers and stopped offering web hosting services. I need to find a new free web host.

Even so, when I find a new host and the site relaunches, it should feature more interactive content, such as a quiz on Sweeney's voting record, as well as a "Sweeney gas calculator," which will display the increased price New York consumers are expected to pay in the upcoming years thanks in large part to Sweeney and Bush energy policies.