3 Months Ago, Now Public says (in Democrat Bill Owens Wins New York 23 Race) Democrat Bill Owens beat out Conservative Doug Hoffman for New York's 23rd Congressional seat on Tuesday. The race drew national attention when Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, and other prominent conservative Republicans threw their support behind third-party candidate... read more

And The Huffington Post News Editors from Huffington Post says (in Sarah Palin, Republican Bigwigs Support Doug Hoffman Over Dierdre ...) Fred Thompson and others are supporting conservative nominee Doug Hoffman, not Republican nominee Dierdre Scozzafava, in Tuesday's special election in the rural, heavily Republican 23rd Congressional District in upstate New York.