{"id":188764,"date":"2010-08-02T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/colorado-senate-race-primary-update\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:47:00","slug":"colorado-senate-race-primary-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/colorado-senate-race-primary-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Senate Race-Primary Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Andrew Romanoff, who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/02\/bennet-loans-himself-3000_n_667611.html\">sold his house to lend money to his campaign<\/a>, appears to have <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/poll-romanoff-pulls-ahead-of-bennet-in-dems-co-sen-primary.php\">moving ahead of incumbent appointee corporate raider\/DINO Michael Bennet in the polls<\/a>, with the most recent poll showing a lead of 48%-45%, though <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/bennet-internal-poll-im-still-ahead-4-points-in-dem-co-sen-primary.php\">the Bennet campaign is claiming that they still hold a 4 point lead in internal polls<\/a>, 41%-37%.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the rule of thumb is that undecideds break at least 2:1 for the challenger, so either number looks like a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> likely loss for Bennet, which to my mind would be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Real Democrats win, and then they push good policies in office.<\/p>\n<p>Rather unsurprisingly, the Obama administration come out rather strongly  in favor of Bennet, as it has routinely in the case of Corporatocrats  this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The primary is next Tuesday, and here&#8217;s hoping that Romanoff wins, particularly since the Republicans seem to be busy self-destructing in their primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Andrew Romanoff, who recently sold his house to lend money to his campaign, appears to have moving ahead of incumbent appointee corporate raider\/DINO Michael Bennet in the polls, with the most recent poll showing a lead of 48%-45%, though the Bennet campaign is claiming that they still hold a 4 point lead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188764"}],"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=188764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}