{"id":1851,"date":"2009-04-01T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:44:19","slug":"ny-20-house-race-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/ny-20-house-race-too-close-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"NY-20 House Race Too Close to Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the race the… I didn’t follow it that closely so I’ll defer to Ed Morrissey<\/a> on what went wrong and what it all means.<\/span><\/p>\n

The quick and dirty version is this… A<\/span>s of 2:00 p.m. this afternoon just 25 votes<\/a>, out of more than 154,000 cast,<\/span> separated Republican James Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy in the special election for <\/span>a New York’s 20th congressional district. There are about <\/span>6,000 absentee ballots, not including those mailed from overseas which have until April 13th to arrive, still to be counted so i<\/span>t’s going to be mid-month at the earlist before we know the final outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the race the… I didn’t follow it that closely so I’ll defer to Ed Morrissey on what went wrong and what it all means. The quick and dirty version is this… As of 2:00 p.m. this afternoon just 25 votes, out of more than 154,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[160,568,477,566,567],"class_list":{"0":"post-1851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-congress","8":"tag-james-tedisco","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny-20","11":"tag-scott-murphy","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-tR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4577,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/voters-head-to-polls-in-connecticut-elsewhere-for-primary\/","url_meta":{"origin":1851,"position":0},"title":"Voters Head to Polls in Connecticut; Elsewhere for Primary","author":"Jeff","date":"August 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Voters in Connecticut and three other states -- Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin head to the polls today to select candidates for House and Senate races in November. 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This video clip from last night's debate between Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Independent Joe Kennedy demonstrates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2935,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/john-boehner-ny-gop-ignored-warnings-from-nrcc\/","url_meta":{"origin":1851,"position":2},"title":"John Boehner: NY GOP Ignored Warnings From NRCC","author":"Jeff","date":"November 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have slight different take on this story than Michelle Malkin and Dan Riehl do... 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