The Fighting 29th

All about New York's 29th Congressional District

Yesterday's Star-Gazette says that the 29th race is going to be a nail-biter.

Exile at The Albany Project found a Messenger-Post story about a write-in candidate in the 29th race.

Finally, it looks like the NRCC dropped some cash on the 29th, in the form of mailers for Kuhl. They've spent less than half ($71K) of what the DCCC has spent ($181K) on the race so far.

Reader Elmer sends today's stories [pdf] on Massa's Republican endorsements and tonight's Kuhl appearance on 20/20.

Randy Kuhl will appear tonight on ABC's 20/20, which airs at 10 PM on ABC. He will talk about the Farm Bill with John Stossel.

Update: ABC News has posted the story that accompanies the 20/20 show. Kuhl is not quoted in the story, but it's quite critical of the farm bill.

The Star-Gazette has a fundraising story, and their Political Notebook is full of news about the 29th race.

WENY examines the bowling alley story.

Eric Massa was endorsed by one Republican County Legislator and a newly registered Democrat who was a Republican for 20 years.

The Hornell Evening Tribune has a lengthy interview with Massa.

Ray Levato at Rochester News 10 covers Kuhl's new poll, and mentions the independent polls as an afterthought.

WENY points out that the Canandaigua bowling alley loan is not an earmark.

Even non-partisan Citizens Against Government Waste tells Politico that Kuh's desire to abolish the Appropriations Committee is a bad idea.

And WXXI reminds us that yard sign theft is nothing new.

Reader Elmer sends today's Corning Leader story [pdf] on Massa's VFW endorsement.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) put $159K behind the ad released yesterday. That seems like a lot of money, except that their buy in neighboring NY-26 is almost twice that number. Overall, the DCCC has spent almost $900K in NY-26, on a weaker candidate, in an only slightly-less Republican district than the 29th.

(via Exile at the Albany Project)

The Hornell Evening Tribune has a debate story.

The Messenger-Post reports that Democratic yard signs are also being stolen in Ontario County.

And Evan Dawson at 13-WHAM has a bunch of posts about polls: Here's one on the Kuhl poll and another, on the same poll, noting that it shows Obama and McCain neck-and-neck. Evan also discusses the recent Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that showed Massa ahead.

Reader Tom sends today's Corning Leader story [gif] about Randy Kuhl's new poll, which shows Kuhl leading by 10 points. The poll has a small sample size (300 voters), and the Leader story doesn't indicate when the poll was in the field.

Kuhl's poll contradicts last week's findings by two independent pollsters, who found that Kuhl was behind by 6-7 points.