{"id":6472,"date":"2010-07-07T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:34:35","slug":"senate-campaign-news-that-grabbed-my-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/07\/07\/senate-campaign-news-that-grabbed-my-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Campaign News that grabbed my attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/07\/06\/spotted-on-the-way-to-freedom\">Clint Didier is rocking Eastern Washington<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Clint Didier is endorsed by Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/2010_elections\/?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/07\/07\/alvin_greene_doll_plan\">Alvin Greene has proposed the way to save the Economy is by opening up the Alvin Greene Doll Industry<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Which seems to me\u00c2\u00a0just a stop gap to cover from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video\/economists-warn-antibush-merchandise-market-close,14267\/\">death of this industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/204695\/rand-pauls-poll-slump-5-theories\">Rand Paul is now tied in the polls with Jack Conway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0710\/Vitter_avoids_questions_about_former_staffer.html?showall\">David Vitter&#8217;s aide<\/a>&#8230; Comment in the comments section that gets to the heart of the matter: <em>Who cares about the former aid.  what about the hookers and the diapers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0710\/39336.html\">Joe the Plumber<\/a> backed candidate wants Obama&#8217;s Missouri votes to be <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/07\/maldonado-birther\/\">deleted due to Birth Certificate concerns<\/a>, is hoping for Sarah Palin&#8217;s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Feingold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128380237\">throwing a wrench against temporary Senate appointments<\/a>, looks for <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/07\/feingold-highlights-his-support-among-far-right-republicans.php?ref=mp\">Right wing support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2010\/senate\">New York Times insists race in Connecticut is a toss-up<\/a>, even though there&#8217;s never been a poll that shows the Republican candidate within single points of the Democratic candidate, is apparently still hyping up their news &#8220;Scoop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-37620-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m7d3-NRA-controversy-flares-up-again-over-Harry-Reid\">NRA goes to bat for Harry Reid<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If he loses the race, the Majority Leader would probably be either Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin.\u00c2\u00a0 The ease with which the US is relaxing gun laws will be hampered in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Didier is rocking Eastern Washington.\u00c2\u00a0 Clint Didier is endorsed by Sarah Palin. Alvin Greene has proposed the way to save the Economy is by opening up the Alvin Greene Doll Industry.\u00c2\u00a0 Which seems to me\u00c2\u00a0just a stop gap to cover from the death of this industry. Rand Paul is now tied in the polls [&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-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","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=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}