Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, who is facing a strong challenge from GOP Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, told reporters earlier today she does not expect President Obama to make a swing through her upstate district on her behalf.

“He’s going to spend his time, I hope, in what they call the swing states,” she said. “He doesn’t need to come to New York.”

Obama, like every Democratic presidential candidate for nearly a generation, is expected to carry New York easily this year.

“I don’t think that would be a good political move on his part,” Slaughter said. “He needs to go other places to get votes and he’s got them here.”

New York may not be considered a swing state, but Slaughter’s district is certainly one Republicans believe they can flip.

House Speaker John Boehner last weekend attended a fundraiser for Brooks, as he did for other Republican representatives, Chris Gibson and Ann Marie Buerkle, who both face close re-election battles.

He also held an event for North Country Republican candidate Matt Doheny and previously aided Rep. Nan Hayworth in the Hudson Valley.

Last weekend’s upstate swing underscored just how much New York districts are in play this year, a result of there being so many first-term lawmakers and court-drawn redistricting plan for House seats.

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