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11 More GOP Members Back Hoffman as New Poll Shows Scozzafava Sinking

By Emily Cadei
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 29, 2009, 2:52 p.m.

A new poll from Daily Kos and Research 2000 confirms what election watchers have been saying for the past week — the House special election in upstate New York is coming down to a race between Democrat Bill Owens and third-party candidate Doug Hoffman.

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