{"id":3280,"date":"2010-11-24T05:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T10:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2010-11-24T05:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T10:23:31","slug":"house-republicans-get-their-new-york-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/24\/house-republicans-get-their-new-york-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans get their New York state of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Maffei, who represents New York&#8217;s 25th House district in Washington, officially bowed out of the race this week, as the ballot counting tilted against him.\u00a0 This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1110\/45541.html\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cI  make no apologies, except to my friends, supporters and staff for the  fact the final outcome was not what we wanted,\u201d Maffei said in a  statement.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI congratulate Congresswoman-elect [Ann Marie] Buerkle and her  supporters and family. I wish her luck in the new Republican majority.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Burkle prevailed by just over 500 votes.\u00a0 Her win brings to a total of five the number of Republican House victories this year in the Empire state.<\/div>\n<div>It is a remarkable accomplishment, given the fact that the GOP here was nearly extinct two years ago, and still isn&#8217;t remotely competitive in statewide contests.<\/div>\n<div>If not for the tea party-Conservative-Republican feud in the 23rd district &#8212; which helped Democrat Bill Owens capture a full first term &#8212; the party&#8217;s New York revival would have been even more robust.<\/div>\n<div>The revival was also part of a great year for House Republicans across the Northeast, a part of the country where their candidates had faced a kind of exile.<\/div>\n<div>One question will be how these Republicans operate within a national party that has grown increasingly conservative.<\/div>\n<div>Politicians like Burkle &#8212; and incoming 20th Rep. Chris Gibson &#8212; will have to balance a distinctly tea-party shaped agenda against their more purplish-moderate constituencies back home.<\/div>\n<div>The New York surge also suggests that 2012 could be a far more competitive election year, with a new crop of Republican incumbents playing defense in these flip-floppy districts.<\/div>\n<div>But make no mistake, those are all complexities and problems that political parties <em>love<\/em> to have.\u00a0  And this round of victories gives the GOP a foothold to expand into Long Island and other districts Upstate.<\/div>\n<div>In the House at least, New York is back in play.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1110\/45541.html#ixzz16C0arItZ\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Maffei, who represents New York&#8217;s 25th House district in Washington, officially bowed out of [&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":[886,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280"}],"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=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}