{"id":2726,"date":"2010-09-15T02:18:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2010-09-15T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T11:25:18","slug":"curiously-low-turnout-in-the-heated-ny-23-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/15\/curiously-low-turnout-in-the-heated-ny-23-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiously low turnout in the heated NY-23 GOP primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a curious thing.<\/p>\n

The combined vote tally in the much-ballyhooed NY-23 primary between tea party champion Doug Hoffman and establishment Republican Matt Doheny appears to have been only about 31,000 thousand votes.<\/p>\n

(I’m fudging a bit because we don’t have the final tally of absentee ballots and these numbers aren’t official.)<\/p>\n

In last November’s special election, Doug Hoffman alone received 69,553 votes.<\/p>\n

So what gives? Where did all those Hoffman supporters go? Certainly not to Doheny — his numbers were pretty anemic, too.<\/p>\n

I know primaries have low turnout generally — but so do special elections.<\/p>\n

If these numbers hold up, it means Hoffman managed to bring back only about a quarter of the support he won just a year ago.<\/p>\n

This could also be tough news for Republicans in general, given that Democrat Bill Owens managed to win more than 73,000 votes last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a curious thing. The combined vote tally in the much-ballyhooed NY-23 primary between tea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726"}],"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=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}