{"id":195869,"date":"2008-06-09T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/dems-hold-lead-in-polls-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:24:00","slug":"dems-hold-lead-in-polls-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/dems-hold-lead-in-polls-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Hold Lead in Polls in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time that Alaska was truly competitive for Democrats was shortly after I left, at age 6, in 1968, and now we have polls showing <a href=\"http:\/\/newsminer.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/09\/poll-begich-has-edge-stevens\/\">Begich leading Stevens and Berkowitz beating Young<\/a>, and both the Republicans are incumbents, albeit fantastically corrupt ones.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Begich (51%) &#8211; Ted Stevens (44%)<br \/>Eathan Berkowitz (58) &#8211; Don Young (38%)<\/p>\n<p>I think that the good people of Alaska realize that these guys are an embarrassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time that Alaska was truly competitive for Democrats was shortly after I left, at age 6, in 1968, and now we have polls showing Begich leading Stevens and Berkowitz beating Young, and both the Republicans are incumbents, albeit fantastically corrupt ones. Mark Begich (51%) &#8211; Ted Stevens (44%)Eathan Berkowitz (58) &#8211; Don Young &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-195869","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\/195869"}],"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=195869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}