{"id":3006,"date":"2010-10-19T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:23:37","slug":"morning-read-ny-times-says-2-north-country-house-races-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/19\/morning-read-ny-times-says-2-north-country-house-races-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: NY Times says 2 North Country House races close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/19\/nyregion\/19house.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">A new treatment of the New York state House races by the Times<\/a> finds that at least two races here in the North Country are still competitive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, these races &#8220;could help [Republicans] retake control of the House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report focuses a lot of ink in Mike Arcuri&#8217;s 24th House district, which includes part of the North Country around Old Forge.\u00a0 The Democrat from Utica faces a challenger from businessman Richard Hanna.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s thermonuclear,\u201d Mr. Arcuri said, referring to the ferocity of the  campaign being waged against him. He added, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a close  election.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The article also notes shifts in the contest in the 23rd district race between Democrat Bill Owens and Republican Matt Doheny.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Doheny\u2019s campaign got unexpected help this month when a third-party conservative candidate, Douglas L. Hoffman, withdrew from the race and threw his support behind the Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One interesting note is that the article doesn&#8217;t mention the 20th district race between Democrat Scott Murphy and Republican Chris Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>Pundits appear to feel that this one is slipping away from the GOP.\u00a0 In an analysis written yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/nypotomac\/murphy-gibson-match-up-not-the-tight-contest-some-predicted-but-other-new-york-races-are\/4092\/\">Albany Times-Union<\/a>&#8216;s Jennifer Dlouhy wrote this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[L]ess than three weeks before voters head to the polls, it\u2019s not the  Murphy-Gibson contest that is giving Republicans their best chances of  picking up seats in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the GOP is within striking  distance in other Empire State races \u2014 and political analysts  increasingly predict Murphy will hold onto his seat in the House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly two weeks to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new treatment of the New York state House races by the Times finds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}