A fascinating late-Friday e-mail from Doug Hoffman’s campaign to his supporters:
Our Campaign Is Not Over Yet!
Doug Hoffman
You have stood by us through this challenging campaign, one that took many unexpected twists and turns. First two liberals were running against one conservative. Then the liberal Republican dropped out of the race and, showing her true colors, endorsed the real Pelosi Democrat. On Election Day the votes were close, and we thought we had lost.
Yet now, a little more than a week after Election Day, our fight takes another turn as reports surface that the election was far closer than we had originally thought. There is only a 3,000-vote difference and final tally will be decided by a count of10,000 absentee ballots.
Our fight continues as we keep a close eye on the recount. See below:
And the e-mail links to several recent stories about how the vote margin is narrowing.
The absentee ballots are unlikely to put Hoffman over the top; there would need to be extraordinary return rates, and they would have to break extremely heavily to him in a three-way race. But it’s not unreasonable to expect that it could end up much closer than we thought on Election Night – and in the meantime, see more headlines like, “Rep. Owens in Jeopardy?”