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emazur
11-02-2009, 01:19 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/nyregion/02district.html?_r=2&hp

CANASTOTA, N.Y. — An intensely watched Congressional race here that has become a battleground over the future of the Republican Party took another surprising turn on Sunday, when the Republican candidate — who ended her campaign a day earlier — announced that she was endorsing the Democrat.

The endorsement only intensified the intra-party fighting that has characterized the bitter contest, as Republicans denounced their former nominee, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, calling her a turncoat who was a member of the party in name only.