{"id":2789,"date":"2010-09-22T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2010-09-22T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T19:00:09","slug":"watertown-daily-times-its-all-over-for-doug-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/22\/watertown-daily-times-its-all-over-for-doug-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown Daily Times: &#8220;It&#8217;s all over&#8221; for Doug Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100922\/NEWS09\/100929927\">The Watertown Daily Times<\/a> has canvassed election officials across the 23rd district and finds that Matt Doheny&#8217;s lead has expanded beyond his apparent election-night victory.<\/p>\n<p>He now leads Doug Hoffman by 769 votes.\u00a0 With only 804 votes remaining to be counted, &#8220;Mr. Hoffman would need more than 98 percent of the votes,&#8221; according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>The Times describes Doheny as &#8220;the presumptive winner&#8221; of the fiercely competitive Republican primary, which pitted the GOP establishment against the new tea party movement.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman&#8217;s apparent defeat was a rare setback for the tea party movement, which helped push gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino to victory.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to the Hoffman campaign asking to interview Doug Hoffman personally about his plans as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The questions are pretty simple. Will he challenge these results?\u00a0 Will he run as a third-party Conservative?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let you know what we hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times has canvassed election officials across the 23rd district and finds that [&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\/2789"}],"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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}