{"id":196134,"date":"2008-05-21T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/congressional-polls-update\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:17:00","slug":"congressional-polls-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/congressional-polls-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Polls Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscc.org\/news_item?press_release_KEY=611\">DSCC<\/a>: Ronnie Musgrove leads Roger Wicker, who was appointed to replace Lott, by 8%, 48% to 40%.  Obviously, as this is a partisan poll, it can be taken with a grain of salt, but any time an incumbent, even one who has been in office for just a few weeks is at 40%, they are in trouble<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen Reports\u2122 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/state_toplines\/north_carolina\/toplines_north_carolina_senate_election_may_8_2008\">Kay Hagan(D) leading Liddy Dole(R) by 1%<\/a>, 48% to 47% in North Carolina, well with in the margin of error, but with Dole as a prominent incumbent being below 50%, she&#8217;s got a fight.<\/p>\n<p>They also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/colorado\/election_2008_colorado_senate\">Marc Udall with a 6% lead over Bob Shaffer in Colorado<\/a>, 47% to 41% in the race to replace retiring Senator Wayne Allard with a margin of \u00b14%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSCC: Ronnie Musgrove leads Roger Wicker, who was appointed to replace Lott, by 8%, 48% to 40%. Obviously, as this is a partisan poll, it can be taken with a grain of salt, but any time an incumbent, even one who has been in office for just a few weeks is at 40%, they are &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-196134","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\/196134"}],"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=196134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}