{"id":1581,"date":"2010-05-26T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2010-05-26T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:47:14","slug":"defining-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Defining the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Fois <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscopy.org\/2010\/05\/democrats-have-candidate-for-governor-republicans-yet-to-find-their-chris-christie.html\" target=\"_blank\">nails it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Republicans in New York seem unwilling or unable to pull behind a candidate like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Governor Chris Christie<\/a>. This is the real divide in New York.  Old guard, liberal, elitist and corrupt establishment politics continues to plague both major parties &#8212; except Democrats are better at this stuff.  Republicans will never defeat the Democrats statewide with the same old strategies &#8230; When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nygop.org\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Republican Committee<\/a> starts to grasp the true demographic needed to wage a competitive statewide challenge to liberal Democrats like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewcuomo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, Republicans will start being Republicans again. Until then, the Republican establishment is wasting everyone&#8217;s time (and money). Andrew Cuomo will be elected the next governor of New York State, by default &#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%3D1581&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=1581\">&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=1581\"><\/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=1581\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Fois nails it: &#8220;&#8230; Republicans in New York seem unwilling or unable to pull behind a candidate like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. 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