{"id":189616,"date":"2010-03-02T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/02\/better-to-be-lucky-than-good\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:04:00","slug":"better-to-be-lucky-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/02\/better-to-be-lucky-than-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Better to be Lucky than Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid (D-NV) is polling almost as badly as Blanche Lincoln, but it appears that hi might win because a <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/poll-reids-still-in-a-deep-hole-but-the-tea-party-could-save-him.php\">Tea-Bagger candidate will split the anti-Harry vote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The race is expected to include at least one Tea Party candidate, Las Vegas business leader Scott Ashjian. And there&#8217;s evidence in the Mason-Dixon poll that Reid would benefit, should Ashjian become a serious third candidate in the race (which is a big if). The pollster pitted Reid against a nameless Republican and a nameless Tea Party candidate in a hypothetical matchup. Asked how they&#8217;d vote, Nevadans gave Reid a slight edge in three-way race. Reid got 36% of the vote, the GOP candidate 32% and the Tea Party candidate 18%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I figure that Reid will pick up a few percent on the way to November, and that the Tea-Bagger will fall in the polls, so it gets interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid (D-NV) is polling almost as badly as Blanche Lincoln, but it appears that hi might win because a Tea-Bagger candidate will split the anti-Harry vote: The race is expected to include at least one Tea Party candidate, Las Vegas business leader Scott Ashjian. And there&#8217;s evidence in the Mason-Dixon poll that Reid would &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-189616","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\/189616"}],"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=189616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}