Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
Incumbent Democrat Bill Owens has a small lead over his main challenger for the 21st Congressional District, Republican Matt Doheny, according to this week’s just-released NorthCountryNow.com …
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Incumbent Democrat Bill Owens has a small lead over his main challenger for the 21st Congressional District, Republican Matt Doheny, according to this week’s just-released NorthCountryNow.com Survey.
The survey is an unscientific poll of NorthCountryNow.com viewers who choose to participate. Most viewers are from St. Lawrence County, while the Congressional district covers the entire North Country.
Still, a total of 473 answered the question in the survey, and of the 450 who said they planned to vote, Owens leads with 47.8 percent, compared to 46.0 percent for Doheny. Green Party candidate Donald Hassig of Colton received 6.2 percent.
A poll by the Siena College Research Institute released Sept. 10 also showed Hassig with 6 percent. However, the Siena poll showed Plattsburgh’s Owens ahead of Watertown’s Doheny by 13 percent, 49 to 36 percent.
One of the most closely considered aspects of this race will be how many votes will go to Donald Hassig, a longtime environmental activist and founder of Cancer Action NY. Some observers believe Owens will lose more votes to Hassig than Doheny because most of Hassig’s supporters are presumed to be liberals who would otherwise vote Democratic.
That is the exact opposite of what happened when Owens eked out a narrow victory over Doheny in 2010.
In that race, the third-party candidate was Conservative Doug Hoffman of Lake Placid, who was believed to have drawn vote away votes from Doheny.
This year, Hoffman said he did not want to run again and is supporting Doheny.
In the NorthCountryNow.com Survey, 93.5 percent of respondents who indicated which candidate they preferred, or 450, said they would vote Nov. 6.
When all 473 survey participants who expressed a preference for Congressional candidates were counted, including those who said they did not plan to vote and those who weren’t sure, Owens received 47.4 percent, Doheny 45.7 percent and Hassig 7.0 percent.
To view the survey and comments made by participants, visit the NorthCountryNow.com Survey page at http://northcountrynow.com/survey
