We actually have a few elections tomorrow, with governorships in Virginia and New Jersey up for votes, but the one that has the right juiced is the bi-election for New York's 23rd district, where a liberal Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, dropped out after falling into third place behind Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Doug Hoffman.
The news of the weekend is that Dede decided to endorse Owens. Expect her to change parties in short order, for she is probably persona non grata in many Republican circles and endorsing a Democrat isn't a great career move for even a liberal Republican; in her case, she was running to Owens' left on a number of issues, so crediting her as a liberal isn't just conservative hyperbole.
One of the interesting things in the NY-23 race is that we have a real prospect of having a Conservative Party nominee getting elected to Congress for the first time in almost four decades; William Buckley's brother James got elected on the Conservative ticket in 1970 as a liberal Republican and Democrat split the center-left vote, alowing Buckley a 38% plurality. However, that was back when there were still liberal Republicans in the land and the political parties hadn't distilled down to center-right Republicans and center-left Democrats.
In New York, you can represent more than one party on the ballot, and it is common for the Republican nominee to also get the Conservative nod. However, in the NY-23 case, the Conservatives opted to go with an alternative who might just win.
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