NY-23 in 2010

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Looking at the Democratic US House members from Upstate NY who won in GOP held seats 2006 and 2008 Democratic wave.
John Hall(NY-19) and Dan Maffei(NY-25) along with Hinchey,Higgins,and Slaughter are safe.
Murphy,Owens,Arcuri,and Massa will face tough races.

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In 2006- Democrats won NY-19(Hall-D unseated Sue Kelly-R)- which was a Moderate Republican district in the Westchester-Rockland County area- It was previously held by Ben Gilman-Hamilton Fish.  NY-20(Gillibrand-D unseated John Sweeney-R)- Seat was previously represented by Jerry Solomon-R was a conservative Republican senator. and NY-24(OPEN-seat due to Moderate Republican Sherry Boehlert-R retiring.-R). In 2008. Hall(NY-19) and Gillibrand(NY-20) won re-election easily. Arcuri(NY-24) won re-election by a narrow margin. we also picked up NY-25(Dan Maffei-D won an open seat vacated by Jim Walsh-R- moderate Republican.) and NY-29(Eric Massa-D unseated Shotgun Randy Kuhl-R). Democrats narrowly won Gillibrand(NY-20) seat in 2009 Special Election and NY-23(Owens--D who suceeded a Moderate Republican John McHugh-R).

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McHugh is similar to Charlie Crist- a main stream conservative Republican who is Conservative on Fiscal and National Security Issues but moderate on Social Issues. and does not embarrass himself like Sarah Palin or Doug Hoffman.