The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Republicans are spending big in an effort to unseat freshman Senator Darrel Aubertine.<\/p>\n
“Senate Republicans have dropped $710,902 in the last 100 days to reclaim a north country seat that was theirs for more than a century,” writes Jude Seymour, “outpacing their Democratic counterparts in contributions by more than 8 to 1.”<\/p>\n The Aubertine race comes at a time when Democrats have staged something of a revolution in the North Country.<\/p>\n Aubertine’s special election victory last winter was historic, as was Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand’s win in the 20th congressional district in 2006.<\/p>\n Were those elections part of a trend — echoing the decline of the GOP around New York state — or were they aberrations?<\/p>\n Republicans are clearly fighting hard to prove that it was a one-off glitch and that the North Country remains solid conservative territory.<\/p>\n We’ll have a much clearer picture on November 5th. The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Republicans are spending big in an effort to […]<\/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\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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