{"id":3084,"date":"2010-10-26T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:44:44","slug":"breaking-gibson-opens-big-lead-over-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/26\/breaking-gibson-opens-big-lead-over-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING:  Gibson opens big lead over Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/uploadedfiles\/home\/Parents_and_Community\/Community_Page\/SRI\/SNY_Poll\/20thCD2010PollRelease2FINAL.pdf\">Siena Research Institute just released<\/a> a devastating new poll for the campaign of Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls) in NY-20.<\/p>\n<p>The independent pollsters find that Republican challenger Chris Gibson has opened a whopping 9-point lead going into the final week of the race.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Chris Gibson has reversed an early campaign deficit and turned it into a 51-42 percent lead over Democratic Representative Scott Murphy, who is seeking his first re-election, according to a Siena (College) Research Institute poll of likely voters released today.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson has become much more known to voters over the last six weeks, with a positive three-to-two favorability rating. Murphy remains known to more voters, however, they are evenly divided between those who view him favorably and those who view him unfavorably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that Gibson is over the 50% mark in a district with more Republican than Democratic voters registered makes this a very bleak scorecard for Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson surged across the 20th district since the last Siena poll a month ago, but his biggest gains were here in the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican jumped from 31% support to a dominant 55% on Murphy&#8217;s home turf.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy has an event scheduled in the closing days with former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>But Gibson also has strong backing from outside groups, including Karl Rove&#8217;s national &#8220;American Crossroads&#8221; project,&#8221; which have promised to pump millions of dollars into the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siena Research Institute just released a devastating new poll for the campaign of Rep. Scott [&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\/3084"}],"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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}