{"id":197840,"date":"2008-01-08T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/franken-outraising-coleman\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T11:04:00","slug":"franken-outraising-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/franken-outraising-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Franken Outraising Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever side you are on in Minnesota, it&#8217;s clear that you will lose, because with the amount of money raised, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/13503061.html\">Franken raised $1.9 million in the last quarter, and Coleman raised $1.7 million<\/a>, you are going to be getting wall to wall ads.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get wall to wall ads, they go negative, because otherwise they become background noise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how long before Franken is accused of being a &#8220;Thespian&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman is ahead in cash on hand, about $6m to about $3.1m, and it&#8217;s likely that even with Franken out raising his next nearest primary opponent by a significant amount, he will have a serious primary campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this election is all about him, Al Franken.  (Old SNL reference)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever side you are on in Minnesota, it&#8217;s clear that you will lose, because with the amount of money raised, Franken raised $1.9 million in the last quarter, and Coleman raised $1.7 million, you are going to be getting wall to wall ads. Once you get wall to wall ads, they go negative, because otherwise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197840"}],"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=197840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}