{"id":10712,"date":"2014-09-10T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10712"},"modified":"2014-09-10T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:05:36","slug":"cuomo-spanked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10712","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo spanked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our GOTV campaign against <a href=\"http:\/\/readme.readmedia.com\/NYSRPA-candidate-ratings-for-September-9-primary-elections\/9688452\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Cuomo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/readme.readmedia.com\/NYSRPA-gives-Lt-Gov-Candidate-Kathy-Hochul-F-rating\/9676444\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> produced positive results.\u00a0 Media pundits predicted if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachoutwu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zephyr Teachout<\/a> received 30% it would be humiliating to the Governor.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/cuomo-counting-victory-teachout-surprise-democratic-primary-ends-article-1.1933632\" target=\"_blank\">She got more than that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuomo &#8211; 62.1%<\/li>\n<li>Teachout &#8211; 34.2%<\/li>\n<li>Credico &#8211; 3.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hochul &#8211; 59.7%<\/li>\n<li>Wu &#8211; 40.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democrat turnout was ~10% and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewcuomo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cuomo<\/a> had to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanniHashimoto\/status\/509557575767965698\" target=\"_blank\">$35 per vote compared to less than $1.50<\/a> per vote for Teachout.<\/p>\n<p>At least one media outlet acknowledges SAFE was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/25995\/20140910\/cuomo-loses-north-country-in-dem-primary\" target=\"_blank\">one of Cuomo&#8217;s problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0Yesterday&#8217;s vote also came as gun rights groups were urging Democratic gun-owners to &#8220;repudiate&#8221; Cuomo because of the SAFE Act, the tough gun control law he pushed through the legislature last year.\u00a0 Even with those factors, it was a surprisingly weak showing for Cuomo, a governor who has invested a huge amount of time, state dollars, and political capital in the North Country &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D10712&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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62.1% Teachout &#8211; 34.2% Credico &#8211; 3.6% Hochul &#8211; 59.7% Wu &#8211; 40.3% Democrat turnout was ~10% and Cuomo had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D10712&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10712\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10712\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10712\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10718,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}