{"id":157,"date":"2008-10-21T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/21\/mchugh-and-the-new-gop\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:26:00","slug":"mchugh-and-the-new-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/21\/mchugh-and-the-new-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"McHugh and the new GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in last night&#8217;s debate between Rep. John McHugh (R) and challenger Mike Oot (D), hosted by Mountain Lake PBS.  (Broadcast scheduled for Oct. 30, 8pm).<\/p>\n<p>I asked McHugh to comment on the future of the GOP, which took a drubbing in 2006 and faces the likelihood of more setbacks in November &#8212; particularly here in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh essentially passed on the question, suggesting that the picture would be clearer after November 4th. <\/p>\n<p>He was careful to distance himself from President George Bush and spoke frequently about his independence.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Congressman offered no new ideas for his party&#8217;s future policies or directions. <\/p>\n<p>Assuming he&#8217;s re-elected (a strong likelihood) it will be interesting to see if he takes a more pro-active leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh is one of the most senior members of his party and has spent nearly two decades in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Americans seem open to the more centrist brand of Republicanism that he represents.   But it&#8217;s open to question whether moderates of his stripe will fight to reshape their party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in last night&#8217;s debate between Rep. John McHugh (R) and challenger Mike [&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\/157"}],"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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}