{"id":3142,"date":"2010-11-03T15:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2010-11-04T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:47:39","slug":"did-ritchie-run-a-better-21st-century-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/03\/did-ritchie-run-a-better-21st-century-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Ritchie run a better 21st century campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Darrel Aubertine still hasn&#8217;t conceded in the 48th State Senate race, even though he&#8217;s down 3,514 votes to Republican Patty Ritchie, with only 3,892 absentee ballots.\u00a0 Those would have to swing Aubertine&#8217;s way by a more than 90% margin for the result to change.<\/p>\n<p>Aubertine&#8217;s staff declined to comment, and the Senator himself isn&#8217;t speaking today, as he&#8217;s dealing with &#8220;a family issue&#8221;.\u00a0 But the campaign says he&#8217;s staying in the race until the numbers make that impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But assuming Ritchie&#8217;s lead holds up, could it be her technological e-ground game that helped her to victory over Aubertine?\u00a0 She has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Patty-Ritchie-for-State-Senate\/109112582444189?v=wall#!\/profile.php?id=100000678292512&amp;v=wall\">almost 5,000 friends on Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Patty-Ritchie-for-State-Senate\/109112582444189\">her campaign&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> has another 2,300 likes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of people to be able to reach quickly in a race with only 70,000 voters.<\/p>\n<p>D<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Darrel-J-Aubertine\/136776146892\">arrel Aubertine&#8217;s Facebook page: 939 likes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Darrel Aubertine still hasn&#8217;t conceded in the 48th State Senate race, even though he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/3142"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}