Here’s a snippet that kind of says it all:
Owens won in Hoffman’s home Essex County, where Republicans have a substantial voter registration advantage, with 3,718 votes compared to 3,175 for Hoffman and 432 for Scozzafava. Keene town Councilman Paul Martin couldn’t vote in the Hoffman-Owens race because, like Hoffman, he lives in the neighboring 20th District, but he found Owens’ taking of Hoffman’s own Essex County interesting.
“This used to be a tremendous conservative center, this whole North Country area,” Martin said. “You couldn’t find a Democrat in this whole area. … And of course, all that’s changed. … It’s kind of like what Vermont went through.
“I think there are a lot of thinking people up here, and maybe they figured it was time for a change somewhere along the line.”
Probably around the time Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin descended on their communities.
