{"id":189195,"date":"2010-05-07T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/07\/democratic-senate-primary-poll-update\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:24:00","slug":"democratic-senate-primary-poll-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/07\/democratic-senate-primary-poll-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senate Primary Poll Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are obviously daily tracking polls, and only reflect last night&#8217;s sentiment, so they are<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/eyeon2010\/2010\/05\/senate-polls-primary-numbers-g.html\"> just snap shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arlen Specter is tied with Joe Sestak at 43%, which cannot be good for Specter.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln seems to be in better shape.  She is leading Bill Halter by 44% to 32%, which, if you use the rule of thumb that undecideds go 2:1 to the challenger, has her winning by 52%-48%, though it is still close.<\/p>\n<p>Both primaries are on May 18, so I expect these numbers to move over the next 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rooting against both incumbents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are obviously daily tracking polls, and only reflect last night&#8217;s sentiment, so they are just snap shot. Arlen Specter is tied with Joe Sestak at 43%, which cannot be good for Specter. Lincoln seems to be in better shape. She is leading Bill Halter by 44% to 32%, which, if you use the rule &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-189195","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\/189195"}],"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=189195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}