{"id":13501,"date":"2016-09-30T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2016-09-30T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:39:04","slug":"endorsement-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13501","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13482\">Colleen Deacon received the endorsement<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforresponsiblesolutions.org\" target=\"_blank\">ARS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/auburnpub.com\/blogs\/eye_on_ny\/cook-political-report-john-katko-vs-colleen-deacon-for-congress\/article_89cb426c-8642-11e6-a8e7-c7bb9ec4e72d.html\" target=\"_blank\">her political standing dropped<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cook Political Report<\/a> moved its rating Thursday to &#8220;leans Republican.&#8221; While the publication said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colleendeacon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Colleen Deacon<\/a>, the Democratic challenger in the race, is an &#8220;appealing nominee,&#8221; they view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkatkoforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">[John] Katko, R-Camillus<\/a>, as the front-runner in the contest &#8230; Cook is the first major political forecaster to move the race from &#8220;toss up&#8221; to a rating favoring either party &#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%3D13501&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=13501\">&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=13501\"><\/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=13501\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Colleen Deacon received the endorsement of ARS. 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