{"id":10556,"date":"2012-09-28T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:31:30","slug":"to-the-senate-races-that-are-actually-being-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/09\/28\/to-the-senate-races-that-are-actually-being-fought\/","title":{"rendered":"to the Senate races that are actually being fought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri:
\nTodd Akin’s political comeback commences anew, predictabl<\/a>y. \u00c2\u00a0First the likes of Jim DeMint takes a peek in to prop him him, now The RSCC is shading in as other races fall by the wayside. \u00c2\u00a0His latest gaffe — “McCaskill is less ladylike than she was in 2006” — is, um, probably just a way to the hearts of his caveman constituency. \u00c2\u00a0 McCaskill, for her part, plays her role and calls Bachmann a hippy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North Dakota\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice is looking at a tv ad in which a retired Deputy U.S. Marshal appears on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Rick Berg.<\/em>
\nJake Werner is clearly identified as retired from the Marshal’s service in the ad, which compares the positions of Berg and Democrat Heidi Heitkamp on the economy. Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Orr in Fargo says the Office of General Counsel is reviewing the commercial to determine whether it gives the appearance that the federal law enforcement agency is supporting Berg.<\/em>
\nOrr says he expects a response from Washington by the end of the week.<\/em>
\nThe Berg campaign says it’s not aware of the review. The ad is sponsored by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

AND<\/a>
\nThe ad attempts to refute Berg’s claim that he’s had “absolutely no involvement” with Goldmark, and it uses audio of him saying as much. But to refute Berg’s claim, it lists a myriad of evidence \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including a real estate license application from Berg that notes his affiliation with Goldmark, previous reports that he was a spokesman for Goldmark and federal forms on which he listed Goldmark as an employer.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rick, how can we believe anything?” the narrator asks at the end.<\/em><\/p>\n

Massachusetts.
\nScott Brown and the Tomahawk Chop. \u00c2\u00a0You really can’t do that these days. \u00c2\u00a0But more interesting … what exactly is the history of that<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Maine. \u00c2\u00a0Angus King tries to right a slightly leaky ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indiana. \u00c2\u00a0Dick Lugar won’t campaign for Richard Mourdock<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0So is why is the Wall Street Journal urging him to<\/a>? \u00c2\u00a0Polls show a sizebale chunk of Lugar primary voters going to the Democrat… and that’s the crux of the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Missouri: Todd Akin’s political comeback commences anew, predictably. \u00c2\u00a0First the likes of Jim DeMint takes a peek in to prop him him, now The RSCC is shading in as other races fall by the wayside. \u00c2\u00a0His latest gaffe — “McCaskill is less ladylike than she was in 2006” — is, um, probably just a way […]<\/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-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","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=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}