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NY-22: Portrait of endangered NY Democrat
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| Contributor | excelsior |
| Last Edited | excelsior Oct 11, 2010 11:47am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | IMRE BEKE Jr |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Post |
| News Date | Monday, October 11, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For a sense of how big the Republican wave may be on Election Day, consider a normally safe Northeastern Democrat -- Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-Ulster), a liberal who's held the seat since 1992 and never faced serious opposition.
New York's 22nd congressional district is carefully gerrymandered for his benefit, running 180 miles from the west bank of the Hudson at Newburgh to the state-university town of Binghamton. Much of it looks like farm country, but the main employers are the state and local governments -- hiring prison guards, schoolteachers, college professors and government bureaucrats.
Hinchey: Too far to the left of the district?
But this year might be different for Hinchey. His challenger is George Phillips, a bright, charismatic conservative from Binghamton who knows both the Congress and the district. A former staffer for Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Phillips now teaches history at a Catholic school in Binghamton.
A recent internal Phillips campaign poll showed the gap between the two to have narrowed to seven points, 44 percent to 37 percent -- with Hinchey leading, but below the 50 percent mark, a bad place for any incumbent to be.
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