{"id":2562,"date":"2010-08-31T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:43:59","slug":"ny20-murphy-45-gibson-40-gop-sees-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/31\/ny20-murphy-45-gibson-40-gop-sees-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"NY20:  Murphy 45%, Gibson 40%, GOP sees opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Journal is reporting today that the GOP is adding Republican challenger Chris Gibson to its list of &#8220;New Young Guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are the races around the US where party leaders think they see opportunities for additional pick-ups in November.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, they&#8217;ll follow with campaign cash, advertisements, and support to push Gibson, who is vying to unseat Democratic incumbent Scott Murphy from Glens Falls.<\/p>\n<p>(Murphy is in Lake Placid, Keene and North Hudson for events today and we&#8217;ll have a full report on the race tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/nrcc_names_6_ne.php\">National Journal calls Gibson&#8217;s inclusion on the Young Guns list &#8220;a surprise,&#8221;<\/a> but notes that he&#8217;ll have some obstacles to overcome.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there&#8217;s a surprise on the list, it&#8217;s Gibson, who came out of nowhere  to post an extremely strong second quarter fundraising haul.<\/p>\n<p>He  represents the GOP&#8217;s top shot at avenging the special election loss last  year when <strong>Kristin Gillilbrand<\/strong> (D) was appointed to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson is at a [cash on hand] disadvantage to Rep. <strong>Scott Murphy<\/strong> (D), though, having $452K to Murphy&#8217;s $1.3M.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative American Action Forum <a onclick=\"s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/dem_districts_v.php_1&quot;;return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/dem_districts_v.php\">poll<\/a> released last week showed Murphy holding a 45% to 40% lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Journal is reporting today that the GOP is adding Republican challenger Chris Gibson to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}