{"id":10154,"date":"2012-06-29T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2012-06-29T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T00:42:35","slug":"senate-race-overview-nebraska-texas-indiana-and-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/06\/29\/senate-race-overview-nebraska-texas-indiana-and-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate race overview:  Nebraska, Texas, Indiana, and Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Kerrey<br \/>\npoll<br \/>\nwar criminal<br \/>\nfor senate 2012<br \/>\nfor senate<br \/>\nwaltzing maltilda<br \/>\npedestrian crossing<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think of Bob Kerrey&#8217;s imprint in google prompts. \u00c2\u00a0There&#8217;s apparently a notable pedestrian crossing named after him. \u00c2\u00a0As for <a href=\"http:\/\/iharperse.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/24\/bob-at-boys-town-preface-born-to-run\/\">Waltzing Maltilda<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0For ten minutes,\u00c2\u00a0Kerrey\u00c2\u00a0struggled through an off-pitch rendition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the tale of a young Australian who loses both legs in the\u00c2\u00a0WWI Battle of Gallipoli\u00c2\u00a0written by contemporary songwriter\u00c2\u00a0Eric Bogle.\u00c2\u00a0Most in the crowd where unfamiliar with Bogle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-war masterpiece, but they knew the history of their newly-elected Senator. It took only a few lines to understand that the ballad eerily mirrored\u00c2\u00a0Kerrey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0odyssey in\u00c2\u00a0Vietnam\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c even to the point of his homecoming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s what everyone&#8217;s imprinted on him.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember who I saw advertising on an auto-ad for the Texas primary. \u00c2\u00a0It was either Paul Sadler, the hopeless Democratic front-runner, or Ted Cruz, the conservative challenger in the Republican primary &#8212; urging us all to &#8220;Finish the Race&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0Paul Sadler&#8217;s makes a bit sense for some low bit news items &#8212; he has to avoid too low turn-out of low information voters that&#8217;d get Grady Yabrough in&#8230; I note none of these candidates brings up any interesting google prompt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/2012\/06\/democratic-senate-candidates-clash-in-runoff-tv-debate-in-dallas.html\/\">In case you want to know more about Yabrough<\/a>.<br \/>\nYarbrough said he was on board with any number of measures, including a wall or fence, to close the U.S.-Mexico border. And to make his point, he referenced the infamous Berlin Wall, saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it was pretty effective.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have to use whatever method is at our disposal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know. \u00c2\u00a0We won&#8217;t have him to kick around much soon.<\/p>\n<p>What we get for John Raese, West Virginia Senate Reapublican Candidate?<br \/>\nsmoking<br \/>\nfor Senate<br \/>\nHitler<\/p>\n<p>Lesson of this: \u00c2\u00a0violate Godwin&#8217;s Law, you get associated on google with Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>News from Indiana: \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pragmaticprogressivism.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/29\/more-republican-time-wasting-in-congress\/\">Your Democratic Senate candidate voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt<\/a> over the &#8230; phony scandal.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing not really watching, but take note of it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Wyoming,_2012\">Wyoming&#8217;s Democratic Primary for US Senate<\/a><br \/>\nCandidates<br \/>\nWilliam Bryk, attorney from\u00c2\u00a0Brooklyn; most recently ran in the Democratic primaries for\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Indiana's 8th congressional district\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indiana%27s_8th_congressional_district\">Indiana&#8217;s 8th congressional district<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Indiana,_2012#District_8\">2012<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and for the\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"United States Senate election in Idaho, 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Idaho,_2010\">Idaho U.S. Senate seat in 2010<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-cst_5-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Wyoming,_2012#cite_note-cst-5\">[6]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup>Tim Chesnut, member of the\u00c2\u00a0Albany County\u00c2\u00a0Board of Commissioners<sup id=\"cite_ref-cst_5-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Wyoming,_2012#cite_note-cst-5\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Wyoming,_2012#cite_note-6\">[7]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup>Al Hamburg, retired painter and perennial candidate<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Wyoming,_2012#cite_note-7\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the state party&#8217;s favorite is Tim Chenut instead of the perenial candidate who won&#8217;t even stamp his name in one state and the other perenial candidate who doesn&#8217;t even paint anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Kerrey poll war criminal for senate 2012 for senate waltzing maltilda pedestrian crossing I don&#8217;t know what to think of Bob Kerrey&#8217;s imprint in google prompts. \u00c2\u00a0There&#8217;s apparently a notable pedestrian crossing named after him. \u00c2\u00a0As for Waltzing Maltilda&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0For ten minutes,\u00c2\u00a0Kerrey\u00c2\u00a0struggled through an off-pitch rendition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}