{"id":14225,"date":"2014-08-09T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2014-08-09T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T00:10:06","slug":"14225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/08\/09\/14225\/","title":{"rendered":"senate election hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/08\/06\/new-allegations-of-misconduct-in-mississippi-this-time-against-chris-mcdaniels-campaign\/\">what&#8217;s going on in this Senate race in Mississippi<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>The endlessly complicated aftermath of Mississippi&#8217;s Republican Senate primary added a new layer of complexity late Tuesday, with reports that the man who had accused the campaign of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) of buying votes is now accusing a\u00c2\u00a0spokesman for Chris McDaniel, Cochran&#8217;s opponent, of paying him to lie about the whole thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Integrity for you.<\/p>\n<p>And the Senate race in Montana&#8230; John Walsh withdraws, we go to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/08\/07\/john-walsh-might-drop-out-of-montanas-senate-race-then-what\/\">who the hell knows<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/08\/07\/sen-lamar-alexander-lead-senate-primary\/13751345\/\">And in Tennessee?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>But even though the Tennessee Democratic Party remains undermanned compared with the state&#8217;s dominant Republicans, it at least will have a candidate this fall who&#8217;s not a national joke \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something the party couldn&#8217;t say two years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/kosu.org\/post\/two-very-different-democrats-running-us-senate\">Oklahoma<\/a>, even though&#8230; apparently no one cares enough to make a joke of the would be &#8220;joke&#8221; candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what&#8217;s going on in this Senate race in Mississippi? The endlessly complicated aftermath of Mississippi&#8217;s Republican Senate primary added a new layer of complexity late Tuesday, with reports that the man who had accused the campaign of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) of buying votes is now accusing a\u00c2\u00a0spokesman for Chris McDaniel, Cochran&#8217;s opponent, of [&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-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","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=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14228,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}