{"id":47912,"date":"2014-10-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47912"},"modified":"2014-10-06T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:42:27","slug":"nail-biter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47912","title":{"rendered":"Nail-Biter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/atr.rollcall.com\/senate-races-2014-most-vulnerable-october\/?dcz=\">Rasmussen<\/a>, Franken leads McFadden by eight points \u2013 but only by three points (48 to 46) among people who are &#8220;certain&#8221; to vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/atr.rollcall.com\/senate-races-2014-most-vulnerable-october\/?dcz=\"><em>Roll Call<\/em> included Franken on their top-ten list of the most vulnerable U.S. Senators facing re-election in 2014.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.mn\/2014\/10\/01\/mcfadden-makes-frankens-97-voting-record-with-obama-top-issue-in-debate\/\">McFadden had a \u201cfiery\u201d performance in his debate with Franken<\/a> yesterday in Duluth and he followed-up today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikemcfadden.com\/mcfadden-lowest-price-mnsure-rates-skyrocket-proving-senator-frankens-health-care-law-answer\/\">with a press conference today about rate increases for MNsure consumers<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0If the poll is accurate (and since Scott Rasmussen retired, it&#8217;s been less so &#8211; but it&#8217;s also swung a bit toward favoring the left), this could be very good news for the GOP in MInnesota&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.mn\/2014\/10\/02\/new-poll-shows-tight-race-for-u-s-senate\/\">PoliMN<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rasmussen, Franken leads McFadden by eight points \u2013 but only by three points (48 to 46) among people who are &#8220;certain&#8221; to vote: Yesterday, Roll Call included Franken on their top-ten list of the most vulnerable U.S. Senators facing re-election in 2014. McFadden had a \u201cfiery\u201d performance in his debate with Franken yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,155,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-mn-congressional","category-senator-franken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47912","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=47912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47917,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47912\/revisions\/47917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}