{"id":1679,"date":"2010-03-01T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/01\/gillibrand-and-cuomo-emerge-as-democratic-standard-bearers\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:46:00","slug":"gillibrand-and-cuomo-emerge-as-democratic-standard-bearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/01\/gillibrand-and-cuomo-emerge-as-democratic-standard-bearers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand and Cuomo emerge as Democratic standard bearers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a long list of Democratic woes, even here in New York state, it appears likely that the party will avoid primary battles for its two most crucial races:  Kirsten Gillibrand&#8217;s Senate seat and the governor&#8217;s office.  <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cuomo is the last man standing, following Governor David Paterson&#8217;s meltdown last week.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s putting off declaring as long as possible, but unless there are mastodon-sized skeletons stuffed in his closet, he&#8217;ll lead the Democratic ticket this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Harold Ford Jr. has opted out of the Senate primary, after an embarrassing couple of months of flirtation.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, the former Tennessee congressman&#8217;s dalliance in New York state has been a disaster.  <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of second acts in American politics &#8212; ask Andrew Cuomo about that &#8212; but it will take a while to live down this episode.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this scenario bodes well for down-ticket Democrats, especially battleground congressman like the North Country&#8217;s Bill Owens, Mike Arcuri and Scott Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>If Cuomo and Gillibrand build momentum, and money, going into November, it could be hard for Republicans to match statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a long list of Democratic woes, even here in New York state, it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}