{"id":2770,"date":"2010-09-21T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:28:20","slug":"ny-24-seen-as-a-modestly-comforting-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/21\/ny-24-seen-as-a-modestly-comforting-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"NY-24 seen as a &#8220;modestly comforting&#8221; for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver at <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/21\/why-the-generic-ballot-may-underestimate-democrats\/\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a> thinks Mike Arcuri&#8217;s surprisingly strong showing in the NY-24 House race may suggest a little daylight for embattled Democrats nationwide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve noted that the generic congressional ballot tends to show worse results for Democrats than other indicators like polls of individual House races.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, some individual Democratic candidates around the country appear to be outperforming their party, while some Republican candidates are underperforming.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hanna, the Republican in the 24th, currently lags by 8%.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a lot, but it&#8217;s more than I expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/21\/why-the-generic-ballot-may-underestimate-democrats\/\">This is tea leaf stuff, but if that&#8217;s your cup of tea read the full analysis here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com thinks Mike Arcuri&#8217;s surprisingly strong showing in the NY-24 House race [&hellip;]<\/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\/2770"}],"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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}