{"id":197153,"date":"2008-02-27T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/dem-wins-state-senate-special-election-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:32:00","slug":"dem-wins-state-senate-special-election-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/dem-wins-state-senate-special-election-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Wins State Senate Special Election in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darrel Aubertine beat Will Barclay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/politics\/ny-stsena275593090feb27,0,7190686.story\">taking the state senate to 32 Republicans and 31 Democrats<\/a> in a special election.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, the last time that a Dem won this district was in <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">the 1800s<\/span>, so this does not bode well for the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>If one Republican switches sides, control of the state senate changes hands.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the first order of business should be redistricting, at least on the state level.<\/p>\n<p>In a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by something like 4:1, it&#8217;s clear that some serious gerrymandering is going on and needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darrel Aubertine beat Will Barclay, taking the state senate to 32 Republicans and 31 Democrats in a special election. FWIW, the last time that a Dem won this district was in the 1800s, so this does not bode well for the Republicans. If one Republican switches sides, control of the state senate changes hands. After &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197153"}],"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=197153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}