{"id":572,"date":"2009-03-10T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/10\/republican-resurgence-in-the-northeast\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:10:00","slug":"republican-resurgence-in-the-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/10\/republican-resurgence-in-the-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican resurgence in the Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northeast was once the political Land of Lincoln, a place where Republicans launched national careers.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the region&#8217;s GOP has imploded.  But there are signs of life these days, with strong Republican candidates gearing up for Senate runs next year in New York and Connecticut. <\/p>\n<p>Democratic governors are also struggling in New Jersey and New York, opening the door to Republican challenges. <\/p>\n<p>These elections will test the amount of damage that&#8217;s been done to the GOP brand. <\/p>\n<p>If Republicans run strong, credible, well-funded candidates and they still get trampled (call it the Lincoln Chaffee effect), it could signal a very long trek through the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a couple of key victories in the Democrats&#8217; backyard would be a great morale booster for the national party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northeast was once the political Land of Lincoln, a place where Republicans launched national [&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\/572"}],"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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}