{"id":698,"date":"2009-04-22T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/22\/cq-predicts-more-republican-struggles-next-year\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T13:10:00","slug":"cq-predicts-more-republican-struggles-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/22\/cq-predicts-more-republican-struggles-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"CQ predicts more Republican struggles next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Quarterly has handicapped US Senate races next year and they think Dems have a very good chance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003099646\">gaining seats yet again<\/a>.<br \/><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><\/p>\n<p>With the caveat that these ratings will change over the year and a half before the midterm elections, seven of the nine rated <i>No Clear Favorite<\/i> (or tossup) by CQ Politics are now held by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this is actually an improvement for the GOP over the 2006 and 2008 cycles underscores how bad those years were for that party. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats are poised at the edge of a sixty-seat, filibuster-proof majority, so Republicans are scrambling to pull back from the brink.<\/p>\n<p>But the GOP has five retiring Senators, four of them in states that look highly vulnerable to Democratic challenges:  Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems only have one retirement to defend, in Delaware.  They could also see vulnerable incumbents in some of the &#8220;musical chair&#8221; positions created by President Obama&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>They includes Kirsten Gillibrand here in New York and Roland Burris in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked a lot here about the philosophical and policy problems facing the GOP.  CQ&#8217;s analysis shows that in tactical and ground-game terms, Republicans are also still playing defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Quarterly has handicapped US Senate races next year and they think Dems have a [&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\/698"}],"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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}