{"id":141462,"date":"2010-01-05T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/upset-in-massachusetts-special-senate-race-may-be-the-political-earthquake-of-2010-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:12:00","slug":"upset-in-massachusetts-special-senate-race-may-be-the-political-earthquake-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141462","title":{"rendered":"Upset In Massachusetts Special Senate Race May Be The Political Earthquake Of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b38e4c50000000000cb9464\" border=\"0\" alt=\"China Earthquake from Flickr: http:\/\/bit.ly\/6e7J7d\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nervous-democrats-fear-new-poll-showing-healthcare-killing-upset-potential-in-special-massachussets-senate-race-2010-1\">Yesterday<\/a> we mentioned that Rasmussen was going into the field with a poll in the Massachusetts Senate race, and that it could show a shockingly close race.<\/p>\n<p>It did.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-release of the poll, which has the GOP challenger just 9% behind, <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/earthquake-rumbings-in-ma-rassmussen.html\">is being described<\/a> as an &#8220;earthquake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>9% may seem like a lot, but non in deep blue Massachusetts. And in a low-turnout off-schedule election with so much riding on it &#8212; namely, the 60th vote on healthcare &#8212;&nbsp; anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/upset-in-massachusetts-special-senate-race-may-be-the-political-earthquake-of-2010-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nervous-democrats-fear-new-poll-showing-healthcare-killing-upset-potential-in-special-massachussets-senate-race-2010-1\">New Poll Shows Healthcare-Killing Upset Potential In Massachusetts Senate Race<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/7_u8UO-ETXI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we mentioned that Rasmussen was going into the field with a poll in the Massachusetts Senate race, and that it could show a shockingly close race. It did. A pre-release of the poll, which has the GOP challenger just 9% behind, is being described as an &#8220;earthquake.&#8221; 9% may seem like a lot, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}