Washington (CNN) -- If Democrats suffer a loss in an upstate New York congressional race Tuesday, it could well spark an uneasy celebration among Republican leaders.
The party establishment, still in rebuilding mode heading into next year's midterm elections, watched helplessly this weekend as Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava was driven from the race by grass-roots activists in favor of a more conservative candidate.
A gunman reportedly took the principal hostage at an upstate New York high school Tuesday, but the students are safe, a town official said. Police said that Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains.
A Democrat has won the race for a long-held Republican congressional seat in northern New York state. In a race that shone a spotlight on the deep and growing rift in the Republican party between moderates and conservatives.
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Bill Owens won a vacant U.S.House seat in New York in a race that divided the RepublicanParty and attracted national attention. With more.
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader John Boehner said Sunday that the GOP wants moderates in the party and that the special election for a New York congressional.
Sarah Palin's decision late last week to endorse the Conservative Party candidate over the Republican nominee in a special U.S. House election in Upstate New York is the.
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