{"id":3171,"date":"2010-11-08T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2010-11-08T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:10:09","slug":"yes-the-tea-party-doomed-matt-doheny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/08\/yes-the-tea-party-doomed-matt-doheny\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the tea party doomed Matt Doheny."},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know by now that Conservative candidate — and tea party favorite — Doug Hoffman siphoned away more than 9,000 votes on election day.<\/p>\n

That was more than enough to capsize Republican Matt Doheny, who lost to Democrat Bill Owens in the NY-23 House race by roughly 3,700 votes.<\/p>\n

But Hoffman wasn’t the only tea party factor in this mid-term race.<\/p>\n

The other big player was Carl Paladino, a tea party champion who ran at the top of the ticket for Republicans (baseball bat firmly in hand) and got walloped by Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

I’ve been digging through the unofficial county-by-county returns, compiled by Jimmy Vielkind at the Albany Times-Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s shocking how poorly Paladino performed in the supposedly-conservative 23rd district, garnering only 31% of the vote in Clinton County, 32% in St. Lawrence County, 34% in Essex County, and 36% in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n

(In all, Paladino won 12 counties, mostly in western New York.)<\/p>\n

Does that kind of poor showing have a depressive effect on other, down-ticket candidates such as Doheny?<\/p>\n

State GOP chairman Ed Cox thinks so.\u00a0 Speaking with the T-U, he argued that Paladino created an “unhelpful” climate for Republicans.<\/p>\n

One interesting contrast here is that Paladino performed significantly better in New York’s 20th district, where Chris Gibson prevailed in the House race against Democrat Scott Murphy.<\/p>\n

He garnered 41% of the vote in Warren County, 40% in Saratoga County, 47% in Green and Delaware Counties.<\/p>\n

These numbers raise one other question:\u00a0 Is the Far North Country now more liberal than the Hudson River Valley?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know by now that Conservative candidate — and tea party favorite — Doug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[886,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171"}],"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=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}