{"id":799,"date":"2009-06-02T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/02\/will-mchughs-departure-mark-the-end-of-his-house-district\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:34:00","slug":"will-mchughs-departure-mark-the-end-of-his-house-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/02\/will-mchughs-departure-mark-the-end-of-his-house-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Will McHugh&#8217;s departure mark the end of his House district?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, someone will be elected to fill Rep. John McHugh&#8217;s seat.  But his departure would appear to make it far easier for Democrats to carve up the district after the 2010 Census.<\/p>\n<p>With McHugh in place, the 23rd was likely to be one of a couple of &#8220;last man standing&#8221; Republican districts left in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Now? <\/p>\n<p>We could easily see the district either gerrymandered so that a couple of Democratic strongholds are thrown into the mix, tilting the seat away from the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe a chunk of the district surrounding Albany might be thrown in?)<\/p>\n<p>Or we could see it dismembered altogether.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/findyourreps.xpd?state=NY\">This map<\/a> shows just how large a target the 23rd is geographically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, someone will be elected to fill Rep. John McHugh&#8217;s seat. But his departure would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}