The Fighting 29th

All about New York's 29th Congressional District

The Board of Elections has posted final voter registration tallies. Overall, Democrats gained about 8,000 voters, and Republicans lost about 6,000, since 2006. There are also 7,000 more blanks.

That's good news for Massa, but with overall registration still favoring Republicans by about 50,000 voters, his task is still pretty similar to 2006: convincing Republicans.

Thanks to Sean Carroll for pointing this out. Also, note that the BOE is reporting "active" and "inactive" numbers in '08, but not in '06. I used the "inactive" number for an apples-to-apples comparison.

WENY reports on the candidates' activities yesterday.

The Star-Gazette has the scoop on Southern Tier TV election-night reporting.

The Corning Leader also has a local race story.

Polls just opened in New York. The weather forecast is still very good, though there's some early-morning fog in the Corning/Elmira area.

The Massa campaign has released Eric Massa's final day schedule. Massa will vote in Corning around Noon. His party is at the Radisson Hotel in Corning. Full details after the break.

Randy Kuhl will vote in Pulteney tomorrow at 10. He'll end the day in a Hammondsport, with a party at the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. Full details after the break:

Headline of the day: New York's Sleepy 29th Home to Hard-Fought Campaign.

You gotta hand it to WROC for keeping the Smug in Smugtown. They must be saving "Hicks Go to Polls" for tomorrow's story.

This was at Gro-Moore Farms in Henrietta, courtesy of the Kuhl campaign.

Rochesterturning has some more video of Massa's appearance at St John's Meadows.

Evan Dawson at Channel 13 talks about franking. In related news, I received my copy of Randy Kuhl's November newsletter, the Kuhl Khronicle, right on time today. Members of Congress are restricted from sending regular mail before an election, but there's apparently no such restriction on email.

Update: Meghan Tisinger writes to clarify: Kuhl is allowed to send emails to subscribers on a mailing list at any time, but not mass-emailings. Since I signed up for the Khronicle, I got the email. According to the rules, this exception applies only to emails to subscriber lists.

The Star-Gazette has a story on Republican and Conservative party chairs' opposition to single-payer health care, as well as a piece on Massa's campaign day.

The Kuhl campaign sent Randy's morning schedule, which is embedded after the break.

Tomorrow's weather forecast just keeps getting better: partly to mostly sunny with highs in the mid-60s.

No word yet on Randy Kuhl's schedule for today.

Eric Massa's minute-by-minute location is included below. Massa will spend most of the day in the Southern Tier and end up at his Victor office.