 "Congressional Quarterly" rated the race as "Safe" for the incumbent party to keep the seat.Tonko raised almost $980,000, and spent almost $780,000 on his campaign; Danz raised about $44,000 and spent about $42,000 for his own campaign.The seat was rated by "The New York Times" as being "Solid Democratic" with "99.8%" to "100% chance" that Tonko would win the seat.