Candidates in Western New York House Race Make Final Push
By THOMAS KAPLAN
Brendan Bannon for The New York Times Kathleen C. Hochul, left, a Democrat in the race for the 26th Congressional district, chatted with voters, including Debra Norton, at a diner in Amherst, N.Y., on Tuesday. Voters in western New York?s 26th Congressional district went to the polls on Tuesday in the full glare of the national political spotlight, while the leading candidates crisscrossed the Buffalo area making final appeals to voters.
Kathleen C. Hochul, the Democratic nominee, brushed off suggestions that she was now favored over Jane L. Corwin, the Republican candidate, who was initially predicted to have faced little challenge in winning a heavily Republican district.
?I take nothing for granted,? Ms. Hochul said at a diner in Amherst, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo, on Tuesday morning. ?I?ve always viewed myself as an underdog. We are way outspent, we don?t have the enrollment advantage, but I am going to keep fighting to the very last minute here today.?
Ms. Corwin, a state assemblywoman, voted shortly before 9 a.m. at a fire hall in Clarence, about a half-hour east of Buffalo, where she was joined by her husband, Phil, and their 18-year-old daughter, Kellie.
?I feel good today,? Ms. Corwin said. ?I?ve been out especially in the last couple of days and people here have been very positive.?
Turnout at the fire hall was steady earlier in the day, though only a few voters were on hand when Ms. Corwin arrived. Jim Murphy, the chairman of the Clarence voting district, said almost 300 people had voted by 9 a.m.
?That?s pretty good,? Mr. Murphy said. ?So far, turnout is even better than the last election.?
Ms. Hochul, for her part, will not be voting Tuesday, because she lives in a village that falls just outside the borders of the Congressional district ? though she represents a large swath of the district as Erie County clerk.
She told reporters that she was ignoring anyone who tried to make a fuss out of where she lives and suggested it was merely a last-ditch effort by Ms. Corwin?s campaign to turn voters against her.
?Not one person in this district has ever mentioned that, they know that I plan to move into this district hopefully very soon,? Ms. Hochul said. ?That just shows that people are not on the right issues on that campaign. We?ve been on Medicare, small business, so I think that?s what resonating with people.?
Later Tuesday morning, Ms. Hochul visited the Democratic Party headquarters in Greece, a suburb of Rochester. The crowd of about 50 people broke into a chant of her name when she ticked off the key policy issues of her campaign, including protecting Medicare. Ms. Corwin faced backlash from voters over her support for a plan adopted by House Republicans last month to overhaul Medicare.
Brendan Bannon for The New York Times Jane L. Corwin, the Republican candidate in the race, voted in Clarence, N.Y., on Tuesday. Candidates in Western New York House Race Make Final Push
The candidates running for a closely watched special Congressional race in western New York made final appeals to the voters.
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