{"id":189182,"date":"2010-05-09T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/09\/specter-is-toast\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T02:21:00","slug":"specter-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/09\/specter-is-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Specter is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says the latest tracking poll, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/blogs\/Muhlenberg%20Release.pdf\">Joe Sestak leading Arlen Specter by 46% to 42%<\/a>. (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>If you assume that the numbers go the wrong way for Sestak on the margin of error (\u00b15%), and figure in the 2:1 undecideds going for the challenger, then Specter wins a 51%-49% victory, but this is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> grim for Specter, and the numbers also now appear to imply that Sestak is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/blogs\/pa_sestak_is_stronger_in_the_general_election.php\">stronger in the general election against Neanderthal Pat Toomey<\/a>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Basically, Sestak has started hitting Specter as being a political opportunist, and it works because it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that Blanche Lincoln suffers the same fate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img210.imageshack.us\/img210\/4273\/cavemen6586443.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"100\" \/><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">My apologies to Neanderthals for the comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says the latest tracking poll, which has Joe Sestak leading Arlen Specter by 46% to 42%. (PDF) If you assume that the numbers go the wrong way for Sestak on the margin of error (\u00b15%), and figure in the 2:1 undecideds going for the challenger, then Specter wins a 51%-49% victory, but this is &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-189182","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\/189182"}],"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=189182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}