Malgré un contexte favorable aux républicains, le démocrate Bill Owens l'emporte sur le candidat conservateur Doug Hoffman et devient le représentant à la Chambre des Américains de la 23ème circonscription de l'Etat de New-York, un fief du Grand Old Party. Mais :
"Regardless of the final tally, the conservatives have won a big victory. . . . They will be power brokers in the Republican Party," said Harvey Schantz, a political scientist at SUNY Plattsburgh. "The real losers are the local county [Republican] chairmen who chose Scozzafava and then couldn't sustain her against rebellious conservatives."
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