Monday, March 5, 2012

Republicans Fear Powerful N.Y. Democrats

AURORA, N.Y. - The ominous chill Republicans are feeling these days has little to do with October's blustery winds and everything to do with the big coattails Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot Spitzer bring to the top of the state Democratic ticket on Election Day.

With voters across the country signaling discontent with the Republican-led Congress and President Bush's administration, New York Republicans fear that three of their once-safe House seats are in jeopardy - out of 15 GOP seats nationwide that could swing the House to Democratic control.

"New York state is in a death spiral," state legislature candidate Tim Julian, a Republican, said at a recent political forum …

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