{"id":1220,"date":"2009-10-31T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/31\/the-scozzafava-factor\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:32:00","slug":"the-scozzafava-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/31\/the-scozzafava-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scozzafava Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke this afternoon with Steven Greenberg at the Siena Research Institute.  Like political wonks everywhere, he was flabbergasted by the NY-23 roller-coaster.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While common wisdom would say that most Scozzafava voters would go with Hoffman, 1. I have no wisdom and 2. this race has been anything but common.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen. <\/p>\n<p>But Greenberg pointed out one other interesting factor:  A lot of voters will likely still pull the lever for Dede Scozzafava. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Scozzafava is still going to get a percentage of the vote on Tuesday, whether it&#8217;ll be 5%, 10% or 15%.  A lot of people have already voted absentee.  A lot of people may not like the other candidates.  Some people may not even know this new development has happened on Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Driving this weirdness may be the fact that a lot of artifacts of Scozzafava&#8217;s campaign are still floating around out there.<\/p>\n<p>When I go to political websites today (Saturday) I see a lot of pro-Scozzafava ads from her campaign and from the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no indication that she&#8217;s pulled out.  Call it a zombie campaign&#8230;that could shape Tuesday&#8217;s outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke this afternoon with Steven Greenberg at the Siena Research Institute. Like political wonks [&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\/1220"}],"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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}