The Fighting 29th

All about New York's 29th Congressional District

Reader Elmer sends this Corning Leader story about the number of absentee ballots cast in the 29th. It's probably around 20K, and that's over 5% of the total votes cast in the last Presidential year (2004). We might not know the winner of this race for a week or two.

News 10 and WETM have race backgrounders up today.

Finally, the Buffalo Business Journal has a redistricting story.

Exile at The Albany Project found this unfortunate picture of a Kuhl supporter's lawn.

Rochesterturning has pictures and video of Chuck Schumer's Thursday press conference with Eric Massa.

Reader Elmer sends today's Joe Dunning Corning Leader column [pdf] with election predictions. Dunning thinks Eric Massa will win by 4.

Randy Kuhl will be in Yates and Chemung counties today, according to this Star-Gazette story He'll wind up the day with a campaign stop in Elmira.

The Massa campaign has released today's schedule, which is embedded after the break.

Reader Elmer sends the front-page [pdf] (and jump [pdf]) Corning Leader (AP) story on the 29th race. Here's an interesting quote:

Besides [Kuhl] said, Massa will have to shoulder public frustration with the inaction and "Democratically controlled nonsense" in Congress since Democrats gained the advantage in the House in 2006. "My opponent's a Nancy Pelosi clone!" he hollered.

Exile at The Albany Project has a fascinating display of every piece of mail sent by Randy Kuhl, showing why Randy holds the record for mailing costs in the last year.

The Star-Gazette has a candidate Q&A this morning.

Responsible New York, Tom Golisano's political committee, has endorsed Eric Massa.

The AP reports that this election will be historic. It's likely that we'll have the fewest Republicans representing us since sometime before the Civil War.

The Kuhl campaign reports that Randy knocked on doors in Monroe County, visited Gro-Moore Farms in Henrietta, and is now headed to Ontario and Yates Counties. Tomorrow, he'll be in Yates and Chemung Counties.

The Massa campaign has put out a call for volunteers as part of their get out the vote operation. Offices and phone numbers after the break. The Massa campaign is planning on mobilizing 2,000 volunteers.

Reader Elmer sends this Syracuse News 10 story about Randy Kuhl campaigning in Watkins Glen.

Buffalo's WRGZ has a story on Congressional office spending. Randy Kuhl spent the most of any Member of Congress last year: $84K.

Finally, the Steuben Courier covers a ribbon cutting attended by Kuhl at the Bath Hospital.

Eric Massa will be touring every nook and cranny of Steuben County today. Tomorrow, he'll be in Chemung County. You can tell Massa was in the military when your read his minute-by-minute schedule, which I've embedded after the break, since it isn't available on his website.

Today, Randy Kuhl is in Monroe, Ontario and Yates counties. Kuhl doesn't send out a specific schedule.

In an email to supporters, Kuhl announced a new radio ad. The content is similar to his flatline TV ad. You can listen to it here [mp3].

Massa's schedule follows:

Seems like the last picture was disturbing. Is this better? It's from the Kuhl campaign, taken on Main Street in Corning this evening.

This is from a news release from Health Care for America Now. They had a rally in Elmira today to promote universal health care.