Politics and strange bedfellows in upstate New York
It is voting day across the country, but a surprising amount of national attention has been focused on a special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. The NRCC, Newt Gingrich and others had originally supported moderate, pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava in what should have been a safely Republican district. Then, after national figures like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh threw their words and broadcasts behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, Scozzafava dropped out and officially endorsed ? the Democrat in the race, Bill Owens. Politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed ? and that was before Limbaugh’s hyperbolic accusations of Scozzafava’s “bestiality” yesterday. We talk to North Country Public Radio reporter Brian Mann, live from a polling station.
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