Republican Jane Corwin’s loss to Democrat Kathy Hochul for the NY-26 U.S. House special election on Tuesday was a telling event. A friend on the ground in New York said voter turnout on special Election Day was low, except for in Erie County, where Hochul had been elected county clerk. It was the afternoon, so one could hope things would turn around in the race, but this blogger knew already that Corwin would loose.

But the race did not turn around and Kathy Hochul won with the Democrat-masquerading-as-Tea Party candidate Jack Davis taking nine percent of the vote.