{"id":2912,"date":"2008-07-22T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2008-07-22T05:22:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:22:39","slug":"lean-to-the-left-lean-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"Lean To The Left?  Lean To The Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Quarterly says Minnesota is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&#038;docID=news-000002921763\">clearing the phlegm out of its electoral pipes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional Quarterly has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&#038;docID=news-000002921763\" target=\"_blank\">switched<\/a> Minnesota\u2019s Senate race to &#8220;leans Republican.&#8221; Previously the contest had been assessed as having &#8220;no clear favorite.&#8221; The publication cited recent controversies sapping Democrat Al Franken\u2019s candidacy, along with a series of polls that mostly indicate a comfortable lead for Sen. Norm Coleman. (One exception: a Rasmussen Reports survey released last week that <a href=\"http:\/\/rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/minnesota\/election_2008_minnesota_senate\" target=\"_blank\">showed<\/a> Franken with a 44-42 advantage.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CQ\u00a0notes, however, that Republicans <em>being <\/em>Republicans and <em>acting like a political party<\/em> is all that it takes to set some\u00a0Twin Citians off:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0CQ points to the looming Republican gathering in St. Paul, however, as a potential campaign hazard for Coleman given the party\u2019s overall low regard in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The polling sample for that last question was described as &#8220;50% Lori Sturdevant&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Quarterly says Minnesota is clearing the phlegm out of its electoral pipes: Congressional Quarterly has switched Minnesota\u2019s Senate race to &#8220;leans Republican.&#8221; Previously the contest had been assessed as having &#8220;no clear favorite.&#8221; The publication cited recent controversies sapping Democrat Al Franken\u2019s candidacy, along with a series of polls that mostly indicate a comfortable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}