{"id":2780,"date":"2010-09-22T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2010-09-22T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T12:05:03","slug":"watertown-times-time-running-out-for-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/22\/watertown-times-time-running-out-for-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown Times:  Time running out for Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jude Seymour at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100922\/NEWS03\/309229959\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> has done the math on Doug Hoffman&#8217;s lingering hope that he&#8217;ll top Matt Doheny in the Republican primary and it doesn&#8217;t look good.<\/p>\n<p>According to Seymour, Doheny has almost &#8220;mathematically eliminated&#8221; Hoffman&#8217;s chances of victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Douglas L. Hoffman, his opponent, now will need 77 percent of the  remaining absentees to win. The Saranac Lake accountant will have to  reverse trends \u2014 and quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee votes so far are being split  between the candidates similarly to the Primary Day poll results.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Doheny won 51 percent of the vote on election night; he has about 54 percent of the absentee vote counted so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A number of news organizations have already declared Doheny the unofficial winner.\u00a0 Others have used the term &#8220;apparent&#8221; winner.<\/p>\n<p>Barring some new development, we should have an official final count by Friday at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jude Seymour at the Watertown Daily Times has done the math on Doug Hoffman&#8217;s lingering [&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\/2780"}],"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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}