{"id":22457,"date":"2026-05-09T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/why-democrats-new-york-gerrymander-wont-be-as-aggressive-as-the-gops-efforts-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:22:18","slug":"why-democrats-new-york-gerrymander-wont-be-as-aggressive-as-the-gops-efforts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/why-democrats-new-york-gerrymander-wont-be-as-aggressive-as-the-gops-efforts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats&#8217; New York gerrymander won&#8217;t be as aggressive as the GOP&#8217;s efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empire State Democrats aren&#8217;t interested in targeting districts previously protected by the Voting Rights Act&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/08\/why-a-new-york-gerrymander-wont-be-as-aggressive-as-gop-ones-00912656\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire State Democrats aren&#8217;t interested in targeting districts previously protected by the Voting Rights Act&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}