premise: ``It's incredibly sincere and powerful and it would have been regardless,'' she said. ``But sensitivities are so heightened from the shooting in western New York that it's even more powerful.''
  David Eichenbaum, a Democratic political consultant who is not working for anyone in this year's campaign, said abortion ``is no longer the driving issue it once was, at least on the pro-choice side.''
  But, Eichenbaum said: ``Sometimes an incident like this will do more to energize those who are pro-choice who otherwise might not consider that as an important an issue to go to the polls over. It brings it home.''
  D'Amato's aides would not comment about the political ramifications of the slaying, and Schumer's aides would not talk about whether they planned to refer to it in any advertisements, or whether the candidate planned to use it on the campaign trail.
   What does the incident refer to?
hypothesis: shooting in western New York