Edited sentence: " He is not expected to win.Bruce Blakeman, who ran for Senate as a Republican in 2010, released an opening statement at the beginning of his campaign mentioning a nonexistent town called "Oleana.Downstate candidates seeking statewide office have often sealed their fate by displaying profound ignorance of upstate geography.Hillary Clinton won the race, doing much better upstate than expected.In the 2000 Senate race, Rudolph Giuliani confused the Orange County village of Monroe with Monroe County, and the ultimate Republican nominee, Rick Lazio, later released an itinerary confusing Owego and Oswego, two communities a considerable distance from each other.One candidate at a forum in Buffalo once referred to "your airport in Albany" ... a city more than 200 miles (320 km) away