{"id":536,"date":"2009-02-26T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/26\/siena-poll-shocker-tedisco-leads-overall-but-trails-murphy-in-north-country\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:50:00","slug":"siena-poll-shocker-tedisco-leads-overall-but-trails-murphy-in-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/26\/siena-poll-shocker-tedisco-leads-overall-but-trails-murphy-in-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Siena Poll Shocker: Tedisco leads overall, but trails Murphy in North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jim Tedisco has an &#8220;early&#8221; 46-34% lead over Democrat Scott Murphy, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/uploadedFiles\/Home\/Parents_and_Community\/Community_Page\/SRI\/SNY_Poll\/20th%20CD%20SNY%20Poll%20Release%20--%20Final.pdf\">Siena College&#8217;s brand new poll<\/a>.  I put &#8220;early&#8221; in quotes because the clock is ticking fast in this special election season.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one shocker:  Republican Tedisco is polling strongest in the Capital Region, while Democrat Murphy is running strongest in the North Countgry.<\/p>\n<p>According to Siena, a lot of voters are still listening before making up their minds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jim Tedisco currently has a 12-point lead over Scott Murphy in a distrit that has a 15-point Republican enrollment edge,&#8221; said Steven Greenberg, spokesman for the Siena New York Poll.  &#8220;And one of every five likely voters says that they have not yet made a choice in this special election.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Siena found that Murphy, who lives in Glens Falls, enjoys a 2-point lead in the northern end of the district.  Tedisco, on the other hand, has powered to a 2o-point lead in Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat&#8217;s big hurdle is still the lack of name recognition.  Sixty percent of respondents told Siena they don&#8217;t know enough about Murphy to have an opinion about him.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican&#8217;s big hurdle?  He hasn&#8217;t put this one away yet.  Tedisco&#8217;s team would surely love to be above 50% right now.<\/p>\n<p>Five weeks to go to the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jim Tedisco has an &#8220;early&#8221; 46-34% lead over Democrat Scott Murphy, according to Siena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}