{"id":194282,"date":"2008-10-10T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/10\/while-we-are-talking-about-republican-incumbents-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T22:24:00","slug":"while-we-are-talking-about-republican-incumbents-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/10\/while-we-are-talking-about-republican-incumbents-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"While We Are Talking About Republican Incumbents in Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/54_46\/news\/29198-1.html?type=printer_friendly\">the contemptible Mitch McConnell to the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have two polls, Mason-Dixon showing McConnell ahead of Lunsford by 45-44, and SurveyUSA having McConnell ahead 49-46:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Those numbers have so encouraged Democrats that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this week went up with its first TV ad against McConnell \u2014 something that even DSCC Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) acknowledged was unthinkable a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said Wednesday that Kentucky and Georgia \u2014 where GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss is in an unexpectedly tough race \u2014 are now on his radar as potential pickups given recent polling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that it doesn&#8217;t help McConnell that his wife, Elaine Chao, is Bush&#8217;s secretary of labor and hates the working man.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a couple of nicer guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can add the contemptible Mitch McConnell to the list. We have two polls, Mason-Dixon showing McConnell ahead of Lunsford by 45-44, and SurveyUSA having McConnell ahead 49-46: Those numbers have so encouraged Democrats that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this week went up with its first TV ad against McConnell \u2014 something that even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1040,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-former-soviet-union","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194282"}],"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=194282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}