We cats have to laugh as we revisit the coverage Jane Corwin received when the GOP selected her back in February to run for descamisado Christopher Lee's Congressional seat. So many advantages the perky blonde assemblywoman had — including, with a personal wealth that could be as high as $158 million, her "ability to self-fund the race to the tune of seven figures."
Well, now Ms. Corwin will have to cancel all her Washington plans. NY-26 has gone to the Democratic candidate by a healthy six points, and the Republicans are much poorer for it: Corwin by $2.5 million, the National Republican Congressional Committee by $425,000, and Karl Rove's "American Crossroads" PAC by $650,000. And that's just the money we know about. Goodness gracious.
We cats have been impressed with Nate Silver's enlightening analysis of the race's larger implications in today's New York Times. It's reasoned and sober, we'd say. But as we are cats, and are prone to meow, meow, meow, we can't help gloating over these additional fun tidbits:
- John Boehner had to haul his orange butt up New York to campaign in what should have been a super-safe GOP district. A fat lot of good that did.
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Florida Republicans Allen West and Marco Rubio recorded robocalls for Corwin. Again, file that under "Good, Fat Lot of." However, they at least get credit for showing up. Other prominent GOP endorsers — most notably the famous quitter from Alaska — were nowhere to be found.
- Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton did a robocall for Kathy Hochul — in a district in which Republicans outnumber Democrats by 30,000 — and Hochul won. Whee!
- Corwin canceled a 5 PM Election Day visibility event at the last minute to "spend time with her family." What?? Okay, Jane, we're certain you knew you were going to lose and were probably pretty depressed. But what about all the people who supported, volunteered for, and gave money to your campaign? You owed them your smiling presence, no matter how bad things were. You're despicable.
- One thing's for sure: Jane Corwin gets the 2011 Martha Coakley Bad Candidate Award. Congratulations, Jane, you've won something today!
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