{"id":191593,"date":"2009-07-22T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/22\/specter-loses-lead-to-toomey-in-general-election-matchup\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:53:00","slug":"specter-loses-lead-to-toomey-in-general-election-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/22\/specter-loses-lead-to-toomey-in-general-election-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Specter Loses Lead to Toomey In General Election Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/22\/specters_lead_vanishes_in_pennsylvania.html\">Quinnipiac poll has them in a dead heat<\/a>, Specter 45%, Toomey 44%, while a Sestak\/Toomey matchup has Toomey leading 39% to 35%.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious implication here, beside the fact that a lot of people do not know who eityher Sestak or Toomey are, is that there are a lot of people who are voting for Specter, and not for Toomey, and that despite the strong support of the Democratic establishment, he is not a strong candidate in the general.<\/p>\n<p>Specter is also generally a weasel, but that is another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Quinnipiac poll has them in a dead heat, Specter 45%, Toomey 44%, while a Sestak\/Toomey matchup has Toomey leading 39% to 35%. The obvious implication here, beside the fact that a lot of people do not know who eityher Sestak or Toomey are, is that there are a lot of people who are &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-191593","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\/191593"}],"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=191593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}