{"id":845,"date":"2004-11-06T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=845"},"modified":"2004-11-06T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T17:37:53","slug":"a-quick-look-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/11\/06\/a-quick-look-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Look Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002992\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/pagelayout\/reference\/two_column_table\/Class_I.htm\">2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I can say is Rick Santorum is a Senior Senator of the God Caucus (a caucus that has been expanded with this last election), in a state that just went to Kerry.  Easily Target #1, whatever the polls suggest about Santorum right now.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, Lincoln Chaffee is extremely uncomfortable with his party right now.  I have the highest sympathies toward him.  Olympia Snowe is a &#8220;moderate Republican&#8221; from deep in the blue Northeast, and must be made to feel equally uncomfortable &#8212; though, since she&#8217;s largely a standard political hack, for different reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that the two (Bi-Partisan, in this case) chairs of the &#8220;Committee on Present Danger&#8221;, aka &#8220;The Committee to Make You Shit Your Pants&#8221;, are up for re-election.  Both will win re-election, depressingly, and more depressingly one is, quote-in-quote &#8220;on my side&#8221; &#8212; so I &#8220;want him to win&#8221;.  (That&#8217;s Jon Kyl and Joe Lieberman.)<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Robert Byrd will retire.  The King of Pork, and a pork that doesn&#8217;t really help West Virginia that much, and a man you can occasionally see his KKK past slip through.  But he&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s hero for providing a batch of opposition to the War in Iraq and stark criticism to Bush Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Other blogs more serious than I and a bit more attuned to the Donkey &#8212; Elephant Game will no doubt have better focus on this matter than I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2006. The only thing I can say is Rick Santorum is a Senior Senator of the God Caucus (a caucus that has been expanded with this last election), in a state that just went to Kerry. Easily Target #1, whatever the polls suggest about Santorum right now. Other than that, Lincoln Chaffee is extremely uncomfortable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}