{"id":811,"date":"2009-06-09T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/09\/ny-political-scorecard-for-fans-following-the-action-at-home\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T10:52:00","slug":"ny-political-scorecard-for-fans-following-the-action-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/09\/ny-political-scorecard-for-fans-following-the-action-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"NY political scorecard &#8211; for fans following the action at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s been a weird ride politically the last couple of years.  Here&#8217;s my flip-card version of New York&#8217;s political turmoil &#8211; and yes, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m leaving something out.<\/p>\n<p>1.  Spitzer has a date night and flames out.  Paterson steps in as economy crumbles.  His popularity begins its long slide.<br \/>2.  Hillary loses primary to Barack Obama, prepares to settle back in as NY Senator.<br \/>3.  Dems win Senate majority for the first time in 40 years.  Aubertine holds North Country Senate seat.<br \/>4.  Gillibrand holds House seat.<br \/>5.  Hillary goes to State and Paterson appoints Gillibrand to US Senate.  Rocky start for Gillibrand, Paterson continues slide.<br \/>6.  Somewhere in there, Malcolm Smith finally establishes a shaky Democratic majority in the state Senate.<br \/>7.  Murphy comes out of nowhere and upsets Tedisco.  Gillibrand finds her balance.  Paterson continues slide.<br \/>8.  McHugh goes to Army, opening another special election free-for-all.  Will Aubertine jump in?  Will O&#8217;Neill? <br \/>9.  Skelos stages a coup in the state Senate, partnering with two Democrats &#8211; one of them under indictment for attacking his girlfriend.  Republicans retake control, sort of.<br \/>10.  Paterson continues his&#8230;well, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s been a weird ride politically the last couple of years. Here&#8217;s my flip-card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}