Races on the Flip Side

So back in September just when I started covering these races, Bishop was up 10% against Zeldin, 51 to 41. The 21st district was a toss up but Stefanik was in the lead. Now it is November 1st, three days before election day, and the races are flipped the 1st district is a tossup with polls saying 50 to 50 and the 21st district is all but over with Stefanik's lead nearing 20%. It has been interesting to watch both these races over these two months. 

Elise Stefanik is trying to become the youngest woman elected to the house, if all goes according to plan she will also. She is running in the North Country with "fresh new ideas" and "forward thinking" and bipartisanship. All of things she is saying during her election, Aaron Woolf, her counterpart had this to say, “She is running as somebody who has got purportedly new ideas. And every single idea is a kind of typical conservative think-tank idea from the last 20 years.” That did not stop Stefanik though, she thinks she is running the race to the best of her abilities and said "I really only think national folks are paying attention to this race because of the hard work on the ground.” 

“There’s no such thing as an easy race in New York 1” Bishop said. Bishop and Zeldin are the closest they have ever been to each other right now. They ran against each other in 2008 buy Bishop beat him without a strong battle. This election both candidates have spent millions to try to keep or get control of the seat. They have been doing anything to get any single vote they can get and to not let their opposition vote against them. Zeldin had this to say “If we come across a couple of our opponents’ supporters, we’ll encourage them to come out November 4th as well,” Zeldin said, then reconsidered. “By the way, we don’t actually… I was just joking around.”