Races are Coming to a Close

Stefanik has a 18 point lead over Woolf in a recent poll, with Funiciello taking 11 percent of the vote as well. Even if Funiciello were to drop out and endorse Woolf (highly unlikely), Stefanik will still be up by 7 percent of the vote. The siena poll can be seen here. 

With Aaron Woolf having a monstrous hill to climb in a short amount of time he is grabbing onto anything he can to bring his opponent down. He is in desperation mode and North County Public Radio does not like it. He is trying to use NCPR articles during debates and interviews to lean towards his side. NCPR had this to say about it, "NCPR is Charged with an overaching mission: We inform our audiences so that they can make their own decisions about things like who should represent the North Country in Congress. Yes, we reported that there are discrepancies between Ms. Stefanik's portrayal of her life history and the record we were able to compile of her actual resume. But we also found that her career has been an extraordinarily accomplished one for a political activist of any age, let alone one so young. We found that she enjoys the kinds of relationships and connections in Washington DC that may serve the North Country well, especially within a Republican majority, if she's elected to the House." NCPR is not pleased with Aaron Woolf dragging them into the situation. 

On Long Island, things are heating up with President Bill Clinton coming to the University of Stony Brook to endorse Tim Bishop and to explain why he was endorsing him. President Clinton spoke on interest groups influencing politics and the "ideological extremism" that has taken control of Washington DC. President Clinton ended the speech with "You’ve got to believe that the more people who vote, the better off you’ll be." 

Zeldin and Bishop exchanged words on illegal immigrants on Facebook the other day. Zeldin started it off by saying “Our nation needs to send a new message to Central and South American parents that we are not going to grant amnesty to their children when they come here alone,” and then Bishop responded, “I don’t know how you can be compassionate, but send them back to be recruited to join gangs.” Bishop is trying to show that these kids have no place else to go and that we need to figure out a solution for them. Bishop then had this to say to Fusion about the subject, “It underlines his fundamental hypocrisy,” Bishop continued. “He talks about how he is going to go to Washington and be a healer….and yet he then stakes out for himself very extreme positions that are in some cases pretty hateful.” Bishop is trying to gain ground on Zeldin's "extremism."