{"id":4498,"date":"2009-04-01T07:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2009-04-01T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:21:37","slug":"rose-bloom-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4498","title":{"rendered":"Rose Bloom Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY20 special election is <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=785673\">nearly a dead heat:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The race in the 20th Congressional district between Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy is too close to call.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"txCopyright\" align=\"center\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><script>yld_mgr.place_ad_here('x10_slot');<\/script><!--    APT Inventory Forecasting Tag Begin  http:\/\/us.ard.yahoo.com\/SIG=16236b9im\/M=600068293.600072064.400524634.400524634\/D=ncnws\/S=2022775850:LREC\/Y=PARTNER_US\/L=12c8fb00-1eb7-11de-9d63-5b6b74df8ce0\/B=LVtPAEwNid0-\/J=1238588251083220\/K=48JwpD1GhAXLmFy851OLtw\/EXP=1238595451\/A=1720240204672431689\/R=0\/X=2\/*   End APT Inventory Forecasting Tag   --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" style=\"display: none\" src=\"http:\/\/us.bc.yahoo.com\/b?P=12c8fb00-1eb7-11de-9d63-5b6b74df8ce0&#038;T=199r2fb66%2fX%3d1238588251%2fE%3d2022775850%2fR%3dncnws%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d8.1%2fW%3d0%2fY%3dPARTNER_US%2fF%3d3940222490%2fH%3dYWx0c3BpZD0iOTY3MjgzMTUxIiBzZXJ2ZUlkPSIxMmM4ZmIwMC0xZWI3LTExZGUtOWQ2My01YjZiNzRkZjhjZTAiIHNpdGVJZD0iOTIxMDUxIiB0U3RtcD0iMTIzODU4ODI1MTA2OTc2MCIgdGFyZ2V0PSJfdG9wIiA-%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d25558862&#038;U=13uprmpns%2fN%3dLVtPAEwNid0-%2fC%3d600068293.600072064.400524634.400524634%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d1720240204672431689%2fV%3d2\" \/><!--flv has invalid value--><!--MME--><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>With 100 percent precincts reporting, Murphy leads Tedisco by only 59 votes, 77,344 to 77,285.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 6,000 absentee ballots that will essentially decide the race as of Monday, the election will not be decided at least until April 13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many regard the race &#8211; in which Tedisco, a GOP challenger, seeks to flip the seat formerly held by the rep who got promoted to Senator to replace now-Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton &#8211; as a referendum on President Obama.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see it quite that way; we&#8217;re barely two months into Obama&#8217;s <strike>epoch of joy <\/strike>term. The real referendum is coming in about 19 months.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;d be nice to flip a seat so early in the <strike>reign of enlightenment<\/strike> Obama&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY20 special election is nearly a dead heat: The race in the 20th Congressional district between Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy is too close to call. Advertisement With 100 percent precincts reporting, Murphy leads Tedisco by only 59 votes, 77,344 to 77,285. With nearly 6,000 absentee ballots that will essentially decide the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}