{"id":14109,"date":"2014-06-25T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2014-06-25T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T02:48:14","slug":"the-big-connie-johnson-versus-jim-rogers-race-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/06\/25\/the-big-connie-johnson-versus-jim-rogers-race-heating-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The big Connie Johnson versus Jim Rogers race heating up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktul.com\/story\/25862502\/johnson-rogers-in-runoff-for-democratic-nomination-for-senate-seat\">Looks like a real crapshoot of an election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The 62-year-old Johnson has been a leading progressive voice in the Republican-controlled Senate, pushing for abortion rights and becoming a hero to the pro-marijuana movement for her efforts to ease restrictions on the drug.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the 79-year-old Rogers has become a familiar name to Democrats in Oklahoma, since he has run for office every cycle during the last decade, including president and U.S. Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/06\/24\/how-to-win-650000-votes-without-actually-campaigning\/\">I kind of like Jim Rogers&#8217;s chances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Oklahoma Democrat, who has run for statewide office every two-year cycle since 2002, has taken more votes than a lot of candidates who actually try. In fact, he passed the 650,000-vote mark Tuesday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing we came to the point, considering how far everyone had to reach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story\/25520654\/exclusive-poll-most-oklahoma-democrats-undecided-in-us-senate-primary\">from the primaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The poll shows 9.4 percent favor Midwest City resident Jim Rogers, 9.2 percent prefer state Sen. Connie Johnson and five percent support Anadarko resident Patrick Michael Hayes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And from that front-runner status came <a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2014\/06\/24\/oklahoma-decides-2014-primary-election-results\/\">a big fal<\/a>l&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Connie Johnson\u00c2\u00a0 43.84 percent<br \/>\nJim Rogers\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 35.34 percent<br \/>\nPatrick Michael Hayes\u00c2\u00a0 20.82 percent<\/p>\n<p>I think what really did Hayes in is that he had three names.<\/p>\n<p>Everything will be decided on the fourth Tuesday in August, along with a small smattering of other contests for the Democrats to &#8230; probably mostly ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a real crapshoot of an election. The 62-year-old Johnson has been a leading progressive voice in the Republican-controlled Senate, pushing for abortion rights and becoming a hero to the pro-marijuana movement for her efforts to ease restrictions on the drug. But the 79-year-old Rogers has become a familiar name to Democrats in Oklahoma, [&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-14109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109","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=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14110,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}