{"id":26491,"date":"2022-11-09T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2022-11-09T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:13:20","slug":"election-coda-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=26491","title":{"rendered":"Election coda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathyhochul.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/09\/politics\/kathy-hochul-governor-midterm-election\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a full term<\/a> as Governor.  Six months ago I wouldn&#8217;t have thought we even had a chance. That&#8217;s the real disappointment here.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side gun control was not the winning issue the antis hoped it would be.  Democrats flooded the airwaves in\/around NYC with campaign ads for gun control.  What happened? They lost <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coolhand_luke88\/status\/1590407914489249794\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House seats<\/a> and seats in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/republicans-expected-to-win-key-nys-senate-races\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockland and on Long Island<\/a>.  The issue was a big loser for them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this won&#8217;t stop them from introducing even more gun control bills when the legislature returns to Albany in January.<\/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%3D26491&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=26491\">&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=26491\"><\/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=26491\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Hochul won a full term as Governor. Six months ago I wouldn&#8217;t have thought we even had a chance. That&#8217;s the real disappointment here. On the plus side gun control was not the winning issue the antis hoped it would be. Democrats flooded the airwaves in\/around NYC with campaign ads for gun control. 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