{"id":183996,"date":"2012-09-13T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/13\/rob-zerban-is-on-my-actblue-page\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:10:00","slug":"rob-zerban-is-on-my-actblue-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/13\/rob-zerban-is-on-my-actblue-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Zerban is on My ActBlue Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest internal poll from Paul Ryan&#8217;s normally blood red Congressional district shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/09\/12\/poll_ryans_race_closer_than_expected\/\">Democrat Rob Zerban down only by 7, and Ryan below 50%<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rob Zerban, the Democrat running against Rep. Paul Ryan, has been trying to make the case that he has a real shot at taking down one of the GOP\u2019s most visible leaders, and his campaign is now touting a new poll showing the race is closer than most expected.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The internal poll, provided to Salon ahead of its release, shows Zerban behind by just 8 points among likely voters when respondents were read a \u201cprofile statement\u201d about the candidate. FM3 Research, which conducted the survey, wrote in a memo, \u201cPaul Ryan is not the overwhelming favorite in the 1st Congressional District race \u2026 Rob Zerban remains a credible challenger.\u201d After respondents were read the statement, 39 percent indicate they will vote for Zerban, while 47 say they will vote for Ryan. Another 4 percent went for a third-party candidate while 11 percent were undecided.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have a few bucks, you might want to throw it his way.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it&#8217;s a long shot, it will put Paul Ryan off of his game as Mitt&#8217;s running mate, so it&#8217;s a win-win.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it&#8217;s better than giving to the DCCC, where (nominally) former Blue Dog Steve Israel is doing his level best to load up the Congress with Blue Dogs and New Dems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest internal poll from Paul Ryan&#8217;s normally blood red Congressional district shows Democrat Rob Zerban down only by 7, and Ryan below 50%: Rob Zerban, the Democrat running against Rep. Paul Ryan, has been trying to make the case that he has a real shot at taking down one of the GOP\u2019s most visible &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}