{"id":20970,"date":"2010-10-26T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20970"},"modified":"2010-10-26T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:47:51","slug":"col-gibson-pulls-ahead-of-whats-his-name-snooty-rich-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20970","title":{"rendered":"Col. Gibson pulls ahead of whats-his-name-snooty-rich-boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember the bit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20921\">I wrote last week about decorated retired colonel Chris Gibson<\/a> when he slapped down some snot-nosed rich boy in a debate. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Siena-Gibson-leads-Murphy-by-9-percent-723737.php\">Albany Times-Union <\/a>says the good colonel is now up nine points on Scott Murphy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gibson&#8217;s appeal has also broadened beyond his Columbia County base as voters have learned who he is, the poll shows. He has erased Murphy&#8217;s lead in Warren and Essex counties, where Murphy has been popular, and is now winning the district&#8217;s populous core in Saratoga and Rensselaer counties 54-41 percent. In September, Gibson trailed there 58-36 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the ads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgibsonforcongress.com\/\">Gibson<\/a> is running;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cPTGKC80FVs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cPTGKC80FVs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Adirondack Patriot for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember the bit I wrote last week about decorated retired colonel Chris Gibson when &hellip; <a title=\"Col. Gibson pulls ahead of whats-his-name-snooty-rich-boy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20970\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Col. Gibson pulls ahead of whats-his-name-snooty-rich-boy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}