{"id":192136,"date":"2009-05-07T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/07\/tom-ridge-not-running-for-pa-senate\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T22:25:00","slug":"tom-ridge-not-running-for-pa-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/07\/tom-ridge-not-running-for-pa-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Ridge Not Running for PA Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think that he could have won the primary anyway, but <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/05\/07\/1925437.aspx\">this puts former head of the Club for Growth Pat <span>Toomey<\/span> in the driver&#8217;s seat for the &#8216;<span>Phant<\/span> 2010 PA Senate Nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, considering that <span>Toomey<\/span> is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> heavy duty wing-nut, it puts whoever wins the Dem primary at a substantial advantage in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>I even if I thought that a primary contest would make it more difficult for <span>Dems<\/span> to hold the seat, and I don&#8217;t, I just cannot see a decent candidate losing in Pennsylvania if they don&#8217;t screw it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think that he could have won the primary anyway, but this puts former head of the Club for Growth Pat Toomey in the driver&#8217;s seat for the &#8216;Phant 2010 PA Senate Nomination. Also, considering that Toomey is a very heavy duty wing-nut, it puts whoever wins the Dem primary at a substantial advantage &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-192136","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\/192136"}],"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=192136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}