{"id":1470,"date":"2010-01-05T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/05\/steele-not-this-year-to-gop-takeover-of-house\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:03:00","slug":"steele-not-this-year-to-gop-takeover-of-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/05\/steele-not-this-year-to-gop-takeover-of-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele: Not this year to GOP takeover of House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox, the GOP chairman waved off the idea of a Republican majority after the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>His comments are pertinent to the North Country because of this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just now beginning to look at the races&#8230;I don&#8217;t know who all the candidates are.  We still have some vacancies that need to get filled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three of those &#8220;vacancies&#8221; are right here in the North Country.  Democrats Scott Murphy (Glens Falls), Bill Owens (Plattsburgh) and Mike Arcuri (Utica) are among the most vulnerable Dems in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Republicans haven&#8217;t found credible challengers to pursue those seats.  (Richard Hanna, who lost narrowly to Arcuri in 2006, is still on the sidelines.)<\/p>\n<p>November may seem like  a long way off, but all three Democrats are already hustling, building campaign chests, building organizations, and prepping to play defense.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans could face one more New York challenge if Rep. Peter King challenges Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.<\/p>\n<p>That would open one more seat that the GOP would have to fight hard to retain.  Without retaking (or holding) seats like these, a Republican surge is hard to envision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox, the GOP chairman waved off the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}