"This has never been a place that embraced extremism on the left or the right," Mr. Biden said, tagging Republicans as extreme for abandoning their nominee, state Assemblywoman Dierdre K. Scozzafava, for following positions at odds with social conservatives. "These notions are alien to everything I know about what Republicans and Democrats in upstate New York are like" Mr. Biden said. He sounded Democrats' familiar theme about the failings of the Bush administration, and Mr. Biden's very appearance was aimed at bolstering Mr. Owens's connection with President Obama, who won the district with 52 percent of the vote.
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