{"id":1195,"date":"2009-10-28T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/28\/what-will-democrats-do-in-ny-23\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T10:43:00","slug":"what-will-democrats-do-in-ny-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/28\/what-will-democrats-do-in-ny-23\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Democrats do in NY-23?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of attention lavished on the rift between Conservatives and Republicans in the NY-23 special election, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Hoffman has mounted an astonishingly successful insurgency, seriously damaging state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But a decisive factor in Tuesday&#8217;s vote could be the behavior of rank-and-file Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve heard from a lot of Dems who, frankly, prefer Scozzafava on the issues. <\/p>\n<p>The Republican is more liberal than Democrat Bill Owens on some social issues, supporting same-sex marriage.  She also boasts long ties to organized labor.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/statepoll\/2009\/10\/21\/NY\/403\">DailyKos<\/a> poll collected Oct. 19-20 found Scozzafava winning 16% of Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Another 16% were undecided, with a smaller 8% slice going to Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>Owens, as of that survey, had attracted 60% of his party&#8217;s base.<\/p>\n<p>So what happens in the next week?  Does he pick up a big chunk of those undecideds?  Do those disenchanted folks sit this race out?<\/p>\n<p>And what happens if Scozzafava&#8217;s campaign continues to struggle?  Will some Democrats decide that voting for her is a &#8220;wasted&#8221; vote?<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this race has been &#8220;divided Republicans,&#8221; with Hoffman and Scozzafava splitting the center-right vote.<\/p>\n<p>But if Owens hits election day with 35-40% of his own party still straying, he may not be able to capitalize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of attention lavished on the rift between Conservatives and Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/1195"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}