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Yesterday's dramatic decision by Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican congressional hopeful, to suspend her campaign in the face of a massive revolt by conservative-oriented voters in her economically troubled North Country district makes Conservative contender Doug Hoffman the all-but-certain victor over Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate whose credentials were vetted out of President Obama's White House.
If, as insiders from both parties predicted yesterday, Hoffman winds up the winner Tuesday, it will be because of a huge grass-roots outcry from voters troubled by Obama's big-government policies, as well as Albany's crushing state taxing and spending programs with which Scozzafava was heavily id