{"id":192456,"date":"2009-03-29T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/29\/democratic-candidate-takes-lead-in-special-election-to-replace-gillibrand\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T02:40:00","slug":"democratic-candidate-takes-lead-in-special-election-to-replace-gillibrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/29\/democratic-candidate-takes-lead-in-special-election-to-replace-gillibrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Candidate Takes Lead in Special Election to Replace Gillibrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, even with the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/03\/poll-dem-takes-lead-in-special-election.php\">new poll numbers<\/a>, this is a heavily Republican distract, so I my guess would be that the Republican has the advantage, particularly given the low turn out in special elections, so I would expect the &#8216;Phant to win in this Tuesday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, Jim Tadesco (R), and Scott Murphy (D) contest is much closer than the district&#8217;s fundamentals would suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, even with the new poll numbers, this is a heavily Republican distract, so I my guess would be that the Republican has the advantage, particularly given the low turn out in special elections, so I would expect the &#8216;Phant to win in this Tuesday&#8217;s election. In either case, Jim Tadesco (R), and Scott Murphy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}