Trying to itterate through all issues assigned to specific user

These if statements don't seem to trigger.  Does anyone see any reason why?  

var uIssues = u.getIssues(Everything,"Assignee:Scott");
var openIssuesCount = 0;
var InProgressIssuesCount = 0;
for each i in uIssues {
  if (i.State == {Open} ) {
   openIssuesCount=openIssuesCount+1;
  }
  if (i.State == {In Progress}) {
   InProgressIssuesCount = InProgressIssuesCount + 1;
  }
}

openIssuesCount and InProgressIssuesCount always equal 0, but I know there are issues in these states.


I tried comparing i.State to the following

• {State: Open}
  
• "Open"
  
• {Open}

None of these works.