Close race because the repug hanna clobbered the airwaves with his negative shit like:
"MICHAEL ARCURI SAID HE WOULD BE AN INDEPENDENT VOICE BUT ALL HE DID WAS VOTE WITH HIS DEMOCRATIC BOSSES" :scared::crazy:
I am so Happy to be posting this news! I'd never heard of richard hanna but people tell me he has a big construction company and lots of bucks to throw at the race.
Michael Arcuri won in 2006 after the seat had been occupied by republican rule for 50 years.
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"The biggest surprise of the evening was in Utica, where one-term Democrat Michael Arcuri won with an unexpectedly close margin of about 6,000 votes.
The tight race there is all the more surprising considering his challenger, Republican Richard Hanna, is a political rookie who spent the pre-election weekend apologizing to voters that his hands smelled like the skunk that sprayed his dog the night before."http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20081104/NEWS03/81104037/0/SPORTS