This is HUGE. Check it out:
Today's retirement announcement by upstate New York GOP Rep. Tom Reynolds brings to 26 the total number of Republican open seats, and to four the number of New York GOP incumbents running for reelection. It also brings to five the number of former members of the House's elected Republican leadership who have called it quits so far this cycle. The others are Reps. John Doolittle (CA-04), Dennis Hastert (IL-14), Deborah Pryce (OH-15), and Tom Davis (VA-11). Democrats have already won Hastert's seat and are targeting the other three.
By the numbers, Reynolds's suburban Buffalo-to-Rochester district is the second most Republican in upstate New York, and any number of Republicans could put Reynolds's formidable political operation to work to keep the seat in the GOP column. Plus, there is little doubt that much of the $862,000 Reynolds reported in cash on hand at the end of 2007 will find its way into the district this fall. But its newly open status should bring the likely Democratic nominee, Iraq veteran and teacher Jon Powers, the flood of money and attention he has sought for months. This becomes the latest GOP open seat addition to the Toss Up column.
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