{"id":1193,"date":"2009-10-27T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/27\/pundit-v-pundit-on-lessons-learned-in-ny-23\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:06:00","slug":"pundit-v-pundit-on-lessons-learned-in-ny-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/27\/pundit-v-pundit-on-lessons-learned-in-ny-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Pundit v. pundit on lessons learned in NY-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always like it when pundits unknowingly disagree in print.<\/p>\n<p>Known disagreements&#8211;in any medium&#8211;are too often rote and played to extremes. And the &#8220;disputes&#8221; on tv and radio usually devolve to blather, quickly.<\/p>\n<p>But today we have a couple of political writers&#8211;both knowledgeable and experienced&#8211;who have opposing views on the political lessons that can be learned from the outcome of the North Country&#8217;s special Congressional election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2233603\/\">In this corner<\/a>, Chris Beam, writing for Slate.com, says &#8220;&#8230;the New York congressional race is especially ripe for overanalysis.&#8221; He even imagines what other pundits will say in response to each candidate&#8217;s win. And he follows each scenario with a paragraph that starts with &#8220;Why that&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1009\/28760.html\">In the other corner<\/a>, Politico&#8217;s Alex Isenstadt, says NY-23 will give us a cornucopia of information to take into the 2012 elections. <\/p>\n<p>Note, these two didn&#8217;t take opposing positions on the exact same hypothesis. The piece in Slate focuses on what the special election won&#8217;t tell us about the Republican Party. While the Politico column looks at a possible shift to the right by potential GOP Presidential candidates, especially Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (who endorsed Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman).<\/p>\n<p>But for political junkies&#8211;especially those who love to hammer the media about political coverage&#8211;there&#8217;s a lot in these two pieces to chew on.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always like it when pundits unknowingly disagree in print. Known disagreements&#8211;in any medium&#8211;are too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}