Did Doug Hoffman conceded too soon?

November 16, 2009 | Steve McGough | |

I’m certainly not a fan of taking election counts to the courts, but maybe Doug Hoffman should have let all of the votes be counted before conceding.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly got Bill Owens (D- N.Y.) down to Washington D.C. and swore him in within a few days so he could break his first campaign promise and vote to include a public option for health care. To be fair, Owens was against the public option early in the campaign, only to quietly reverse his opinion in the last few days.

Anyway… back to the story.

During the past week, they have actually taken the time to count the votes and it seems like the results were a bit closer than expected. The current vote tally has Owens up by 3,000, but there are 10,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted.

Hat tip to Geraghty at the NRO Campaign Spot.

Although an interesting story, my gut is telling me the results will not change.

Posted in

Steve McGough

Steve's a part-time conservative blogger. Steve grew up in Connecticut and has lived in Washington, D.C. and the Bahamas. He resides in Connecticut, where he’s comfortable six months of the year.

3 Comments

  1. Anne-EH on November 16, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Could this be a possible preview of post-Election Day 2010 final count/recount problems?



  2. sammy22 on November 16, 2009 at 11:32 am

    Doug Hoffman conceded too soon. He should have waited for Sarah Palin's book to come out.



  3. Dimsdale on November 18, 2009 at 5:13 am

    Take a page from the Democrats: never give up, no matter how many times you have to count ballots or chads.



The website's content and articles were migrated to a new framework in October 2023. You may see [shortcodes in brackets] that do not make any sense. Please ignore that stuff. We may fix it at some point, but we do not have the time now.

You'll also note comments migrated over may have misplaced question marks and missing spaces. All comments were migrated, but trackbacks may not show.

The site is not broken.