{"id":655,"date":"2009-03-31T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/31\/20th-house-race-too-close-to-call\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:56:00","slug":"20th-house-race-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/31\/20th-house-race-too-close-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"20th HOUSE RACE TOO CLOSE TO CALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been shuttling back and forth between Dem and GOP HQs in Saratoga Springs.  Both candidates, Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady) and Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls) are declaring cautious victory.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy currently leads by fewer than fifty votes.  It&#8217;s a remarkable accomplishment for a political newcomer who had zero name recognition two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tedisco is telling supporters that absentee ballots &#8212; including military votes from overseas &#8212; will close the gap and send him to Washington DC. <\/p>\n<p>Police seized ballot boxes across the district tonight and litigation is likely as this contest enters the &#8216;hanging chad&#8217; phase. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s certain is that a district that was once bedrock Republican is now a toss-up, maybe even slightly blue-tilting. <\/p>\n<p>Also clear is that the political texture of the North Country has changed dramatically over the last decade.  Murphy&#8217;s campaign was buoyed by dramatic margins in Warren and Washington Counties, and a narrower victory in Essex County.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow during regional news we&#8217;ll hear from Murphy, Tedisco, Governor Paterson and Democrat Party chair June O&#8217;Neil from St. Lawrence County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been shuttling back and forth between Dem and GOP HQs in Saratoga Springs. Both [&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\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}