President Obama’s machinations already triggered the epic Murphy-Tedisco contest on the eastern side of our listening area.<\/p>\n
(Corrected: Thanks, anonymous.)<\/p>\n
Now, his elevation of John McHugh to his cabinet sets off another game of musical chairs on the western side of the North Country.<\/p>\n
Yep, it’s election time again. Time to dust off those sports metaphors!<\/p>\n
The weird thing about this race is that it’s likely to be competitive.<\/p>\n
This is an other once-safe GOP district that went strong for Obama and that now has a feisty Democratic grassroots.<\/p>\n
But Republicans simply can’t afford to lose another Northeastern House seat.<\/p>\n
The gloves are off, the horses are nosing toward the gate, it’s the seventh inning stretch (whatever the heck that means)…<\/p>\n
One clear winner in this whole fandango (other than Rep. McHugh) are the media outlets that will begin hoovering up big $$$ in the form of campaign ad revenue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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