{"id":195741,"date":"2008-06-17T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/senate-polling\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:13:00","slug":"senate-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/senate-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=93512353-3e37-43d5-ac76-42386ebf0a37\">SurveyUSA<\/a>:  Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 50%; Bruce Lunsford (D-MN) 46%:  I&#8217;m surprised that it&#8217;s this close now.  McConnell is still at the magic 50% number, but he&#8217;s the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">minority leader of the Senate<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/alaska\/election_2008_alaska_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a>: Ted Stephens (R-AK) 46%; Mark Begich (D-AK) 44%: Stevens is in real trouble.  One of the truisms of politics are that undecideds break against the incumbent by at least 2:1.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=c358090e-4679-4eeb-b99f-fd8654bc08be\">SurveyUSA<\/a>: Norm Coleman (R-MN) 52%; Al Franken (D-MN), if Jesse Ventura enters the race as an independent, it becomes (R)41%-(D)31%-(I)23%:  This as me bumming.  I hate that smarmy bastard Coleman.  One hopes that the race will become more about Norm Coleman, and less about Al Franken.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/virginia\/election_2008_virginia_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a>: Mark Warner (D-VA) 60%; Jim Gilmore (R-VA) 33%:  Virginia will have two Democratic Senators.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/kansas\/election_2008_kansas_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a>: Pat Roberts (R-KS) 48%; Jim Slattery (D-KS) 39%:  The fact that the incumbent Republican in Kansas is below 50% is simply stunning.  I think that this is unlikely Dem pickup, but the idea that a Democrat has a non-insane shot at this, Roberts is below 50%, is stunning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SurveyUSA: Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 50%; Bruce Lunsford (D-MN) 46%: I&#8217;m surprised that it&#8217;s this close now. McConnell is still at the magic 50% number, but he&#8217;s the minority leader of the Senate. Rasmussen Reports\u2122: Ted Stephens (R-AK) 46%; Mark Begich (D-AK) 44%: Stevens is in real trouble. One of the truisms of politics are that &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-195741","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\/195741"}],"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=195741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}