{"id":195346,"date":"2008-07-15T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/some-more-senate-polls\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:45:00","slug":"some-more-senate-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/some-more-senate-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Senate Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Louisiana, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/louisiana\/election_2008_louisiana_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a> saying that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu now attracts 49% of the vote in her bid for re-election while Republican challenger John Kennedy earns 44%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that, when \u201cleaners\u201d are included, it\u2019s Landrieu 51% Kennedy 45%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this is significant, because she is above 50%, which is the worry point for an incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>We also have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=1fb0a633-859e-41ac-86d8-04c941d1eb97\">SurveyUSA Election Poll for Minnesota<\/a> which shows Franken down by 13%, 39% to 52% to Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>Both Survey USA and Rasmussen are reliable, so I&#8217;m unclear whether this poll, or the one from last night, which showed Franken up by 2%, is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of how much I care, I care more about Minnesota than Louisiana, because we have a real Democrat running in Minnesota, and I think that after the ethnic cleansing of post Katrina Louisiana, the state is no longer viable territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Louisiana, we have Rasmussen Reports\u2122 saying that: U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu now attracts 49% of the vote in her bid for re-election while Republican challenger John Kennedy earns 44%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that, when \u201cleaners\u201d are included, it\u2019s Landrieu 51% Kennedy 45%. I think that this is significant, because she &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-195346","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\/195346"}],"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=195346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}