{"id":195788,"date":"2008-06-13T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/updates-on-various-races\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:38:00","slug":"updates-on-various-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/13\/updates-on-various-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Various Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/minnesota\/election_2008_minnesota_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a>: has Norm Coleman at 48% and Al Franken 45%, and it is not good for an incumbent to be below 50%.  This will be winnable, even with the phony scandals drummed up by Coleman&#8217;s bully boys.<\/p>\n<p>The race for Fossella&#8217;s seat in Staten Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002896550\">is a tossup<\/a>, though it has historically been a fairly solid Republican district.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/north_carolina\/election_2008_north_carolina_senate\">Rasmussen Reports\u2122<\/a> has Liddy Dole with a 14-Point Lead Over Kay Hagan, 53%-39%.  The last poll had Hagan up by 1 point, immediately after she won the primary, but Dole has been running ads, and Hagan has not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmussen Reports\u2122: has Norm Coleman at 48% and Al Franken 45%, and it is not good for an incumbent to be below 50%. This will be winnable, even with the phony scandals drummed up by Coleman&#8217;s bully boys. The race for Fossella&#8217;s seat in Staten Island is a tossup, though it has historically been a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1091,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195788"}],"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=195788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}