{"id":1532,"date":"2010-01-24T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/24\/a-repeat-of-ny-23-in-virginia\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:57:00","slug":"a-repeat-of-ny-23-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/24\/a-repeat-of-ny-23-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"A repeat of NY-23 in Virginia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/23\/AR2010012302951.html?hpid=topnews\">The Washington Post <\/a>lays out an interesting story today about a House race in Virginia that has overtones of the Scozzafava-Hoffman debacle here in the North Country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As in New York, Republican leaders in Virginia are backing a moderate state lawmaker, Sen. Robert Hurt, whose record enrages many conservatives, including a disparate band of Tea Party activists. <\/p>\n<p>To them, Hurt is not a real conservative because of his past support for tax increases, and they&#8217;re promising a third-party challenge if he wins the nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Doug Hoffman&#8217;s camp has released polling data suggesting that he&#8217;s the best candidate for the Republicans to back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Not against Rep. Scott Murphy, who represents the district where Hoffman lives, but in a rematch against Rep. Bill Owens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post lays out an interesting story today about a House race in Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}