{"id":196592,"date":"2008-04-10T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/10\/senate-polls\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T21:41:00","slug":"senate-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/10\/senate-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have Alaska, where  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/alaska\/election_2008_alaska_senate\">Ted Stevens(R) gets 46%, and Mark Begich(D)gets 45%<\/a>.  It&#8217;s still early but this is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> good news for Stevens, as undecideds typically break 2:1 for the challenger, giving Begich a very good chance of being the first Democratic Senator from Alaska since Mike Gravel.<\/p>\n<p>In New Mexico, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/new_mexico\/election_2008_new_mexico_senate\">Tom Udall in a comfortable lead over his potential opponents<\/a>, 54% to 40% over Steve Pearce and 56% to 36% over Heather Wilson, who has been seriously hurt by her involvement in the US Attorney firings scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have Alaska, where Ted Stevens(R) gets 46%, and Mark Begich(D)gets 45%. It&#8217;s still early but this is not good news for Stevens, as undecideds typically break 2:1 for the challenger, giving Begich a very good chance of being the first Democratic Senator from Alaska since Mike Gravel. In New Mexico, we have Tom &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-196592","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\/196592"}],"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=196592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}