{"id":13347,"date":"2016-08-12T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:54:33","slug":"one-bright-spot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13347","title":{"rendered":"One bright spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the boat anchor that is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/08\/11\/bombshell-poll-rocks-gop-hillary-clinton-turn-south-carolina-blue.html\" target=\"_blank\">dragging down candidates<\/a> across the country, there appears to be a bright spot in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latfor.state.ny.us\/maps\/2012c\/CD_map_rep_22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CD-22<\/a>.\u00a0 According to State of Politics, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\" target=\"_blank\">DNC<\/a> is concerned enough about 3rd party candidate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babinecforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Babinec<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2016\/08\/ny-22-babinec-draws-a-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">start following him around<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the districts I had thought the GOP would lose because <a href=\"http:\/\/romesentinel.com\/county\/republican-chairpersons-get-behind-tenney-bid\/QBqpgA!xy3CVSSSmYbuPvf7440Ceg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Tenney had some problems<\/a> getting the party to back her.\u00a0 If the DNC is worried about Babinec siphoning votes away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myersforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Myers<\/a> I am more optimistic Tenney will go the distance.\u00a0 There is a small Republican majority in the district.<\/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%3D13347&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=13347\">&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=13347\"><\/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=13347\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the boat anchor that is the Trump campaign dragging down candidates across the country, there appears to be a bright spot in CD-22.\u00a0 According to State of Politics, the DNC is concerned enough about 3rd party candidate\u00a0Martin Babinec to start following him around. 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