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    Whoops, there it goes! GOP Chair Cox reaches for rewrite on upstater

    When Dede Scozzafava, the Republican, announced she was giving up  the Congressional race in the state's northwest corner after trailing badly in the polls, the instant analysis in some circles was that she'd be clearing the way to help Doug Hoffman, the Conservative candidate, beat Democrat Bill Owens. But today Scozzafava endorsed Owens. So Ed Cox, state GOP chair, had -- within 24 hours...

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