{"id":196488,"date":"2008-04-22T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/begich-makes-it-official-hes-running-against-stevens-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:19:00","slug":"begich-makes-it-official-hes-running-against-stevens-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/begich-makes-it-official-hes-running-against-stevens-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Begich Makes It Official, He&#8217;s Running Against Stevens in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Begich will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/04\/21\/alaska.senate.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_politics\">running against Ted Stevens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been pretty much a done deal <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/mark-begich-to-run-against-ted-stevens.html\">since February<\/a>, and considering the fact that Stevens has gone from Uncle Pork to criminal in the voters minds, it&#8217;s a reasonable chance for a Dem pickup.<\/p>\n<p>It helps that Begich is Mayor of Anchorage, as he will have an organization there, and around 45% of Alaska&#8217;s population live in the city, and around 57% of the population lives in the greater Anchorage metro area.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.begich.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Begich will be running against Ted Stevens. It&#8217;s been pretty much a done deal since February, and considering the fact that Stevens has gone from Uncle Pork to criminal in the voters minds, it&#8217;s a reasonable chance for a Dem pickup. It helps that Begich is Mayor of Anchorage, as he will have an &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196488"}],"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=196488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}