NY-23: Club For Growth Poll Points to Three-Way, Scozzafava Hammered From Both Sides in New Ads

Basswood Research for the Club For Growth (9/17, likely voters):

Bill Owens (D): 17
Dede Scozzafava (R): 20
Doug Hoffman (C): 17
Undecided: 45
(MoE: ±5.7%)

The Club For Growth seems ready and eager to jump into the fray in upstate New York after releasing this poll showing their homeboy Doug Hoffman in spitting distance of Scozzfava. The results are even more optimistic for Hoffman than those of Hoffman's own polling (which had Scozzafava ahead by 30-19, with 20% going to Democrat Bill Owens). Both polls, with their fat MoEs (and in this case, a single-day sample), appear to have been done on the cheap, though. The fact that the Club For Growth appears to be ready to throw down must be music to the DCCC's ears here.

Both party committees are up on the air with ads, but the NRCC has made the bigger investment: $120K vs. the DCCC's $55K. But Team Blue is getting an assist from Hoffman, who's up on the air with a new ad hammering Scozzafava from the right.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/5635/ny23-club-for-growth-poll-points-to-threeway-scozzafava-hammered-from-both-sides-in-new-ads