{"id":195304,"date":"2008-07-17T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/17\/merkeley-takes-lead-in-oregon\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:32:00","slug":"merkeley-takes-lead-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/17\/merkeley-takes-lead-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkeley Takes Lead in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/oregon\/election_2008_oregon_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122 poll<\/a> Jeff Merkeley has taken the lead, 43% to 41%, over Gordon Smith (R), the incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been below 50%, which is trouble for an incumbent, for some time, but I think that this is the first time that he has been shown in the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Rasmussen Reports\u2122 poll Jeff Merkeley has taken the lead, 43% to 41%, over Gordon Smith (R), the incumbent. Smith has been below 50%, which is trouble for an incumbent, for some time, but I think that this is the first time that he has been shown in the lead.<\/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-195304","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\/195304"}],"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=195304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}