{"id":1473,"date":"2010-01-06T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/a-republican-surge-in-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:36:00","slug":"a-republican-surge-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/a-republican-surge-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican surge in the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been scoffing at the idea of a Republican surge in the House, but we&#8217;re now beginning to see the outline of a big GOP opening in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The opening is created by a large slate of Dems expected to retire<\/p>\n<p>Democrats from North Dakota and Connecticut are expected to step aside this year, and not seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are also seen as at least somewhat vulnerable in Delaware, Illinois and New York, thanks to the political musical chairs that followed Barack Obama&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Senate majority leader Harry Reid from Nevada is seen as vulnerable, though Republicans have struggled to recruit a top-tier challenger.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of a GOP takeover are slight, but the likelihood that Democrats will retain a 60-seat filibuster proof coalition now appears very slim indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that the pressure on the White House to advance their agenda will intensify over these final eleven months of Democratic supremacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been scoffing at the idea of a Republican surge in the House, but we&#8217;re [&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\/1473"}],"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=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}