{"id":6024,"date":"2012-04-25T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:56:15","slug":"romney-takes-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6024","title":{"rendered":"Romney takes New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise of no-one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> won all of the delegates in <a href=\"http:\/\/polhudson.lohudblogs.com\/2012\/04\/25\/looks-like-a-clean-sweep-for-romney-in-ny\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s primary<\/a>. \u00a0With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newt.org\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/04\/23\/11359666-gingrich-hints-he-may-drop-from-race-this-week\" target=\"_blank\">hinting that he will drop out of the race<\/a> soon, talk has shifted to who might be Romney&#8217;s running mate.<\/p>\n<p>VSSA notices that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.virginia.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Bob McDonnell<\/a> appears to be trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiashootingsportsassociation.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/is-governor-mcdonnell-raising-veep.html\" target=\"_blank\">raise his profile<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrapvf.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a> rated him an <strong>A<\/strong> when he ran for Governor back in &#8217;09.<\/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%3D6024&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=6024\">&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=6024\"><\/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=6024\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise of no-one, Mitt Romney won all of the delegates in yesterday&#8217;s primary. \u00a0With Newt Gingrich hinting that he will drop out of the race soon, talk has shifted to who might be Romney&#8217;s running mate. 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