{"id":1784,"date":"2009-11-03T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:25:00","slug":"history-of-the-new-york-conservative-party-in-5-minutes-maybe-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1784\/history-of-the-new-york-conservative-party-in-5-minutes-maybe-10\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the New York Conservative Party in 5 Minutes (Maybe 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those wanting to impress others at your election returns party tonight (and if you&#8217;re reading this blog, you&#8217;ve at least thought about it), here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpnys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to the New York Conservative Party website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And below is a link to short video description of its history by the incomparable Rick Brookhiser of National Review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.nationalreview.com\/offthepage\/post\/?q=ZWNjOGIxM2E4M2YyYmFkOGRlZmNhM2RjN2U3NDgxODI=\">Rick Brookhiser on the New York Conservative Party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be upstaged by that know-it-all acquaintance who can quote Michael Barone&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0892341203\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0892341122&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0D5SJ628DFADZF96G3BM\" target=\"_blank\">Almanac of American Politics<\/a>&#8221; from memory.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be able to counter with factoids like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpnys.org\/history\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line.\u00a0 Attorney General Vacco nosed out radical Karen Burstein by 88,340 votes.\u00a0 He received 305,961 votes on the Conservative Line.\u00a0 In 1998, 348,272 votes for Governor George E. Pataki were cast on the Conservative line, almost 20,000 more than in 1994, an anomaly in political history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those wanting to impress others at your election returns party tonight (and if you&#8217;re reading this blog, you&#8217;ve at least thought about it), here&#8217;s the link to the New York Conservative Party website. And below is a link to short video description of its history by the incomparable Rick Brookhiser of National Review: Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,425,424,422,418,421],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-almanac-of-american-politics","tag-george-pataki","tag-michael-barone","tag-national-review","tag-new-york-conservative-party","tag-rick-brookhiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}