A Sienna College poll has just been released and it has a Republican in the lead for taking over Democrat Gillibrand’s upstate congressional seat.

James Tedisco is leading by 12 points (with a margin of error of 3.7) over Scott Murphy.

According to our handy-dandy wikipedia search, the seat is generally held by Democrats. Only having three Republicans representing the area since 1937.

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