{"id":162287,"date":"2010-01-10T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shock-poll-has-gop-candidate-now-leading-in-massachusetts-senate-race-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-10T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:02:00","slug":"shock-poll-has-gop-candidate-now-leading-in-massachusetts-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/162287","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK: Poll Has GOP Candidate Now Leading In Massachusetts Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b474a0b0000000000f58f18&amp;maxX=354&amp;maxY=268\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Flat World Earth\" width=\"354\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still hard to believe a Republican could win in deep-blue Massachusetts, but if you&#8217;re interested in healthcare reform you must pay attention to the election that will take place on January 19th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/toss-up-in-massachusetts.html\">A new poll from PPP<\/a> has GOP candidate Scott Brown leading Democrat Martha Coakley by 1 point.<\/p>\n<p>How could a Republican win in a state that Obama carried by more than 20 points?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple. Republicans are motivated by the chance to pull a gigantic upset and torpedo healthcare reform. Democrats aren&#8217;t so motivated, so the conventional wisdom is that the makeup of the electorate will be way different than it was last election day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shock-poll-has-gop-candidate-now-leading-in-massachusetts-senate-race-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\/healthcare-lobbyists-descend-on-massachusetts-to-save-the-60th-vote-for-reform-2010-1\">Panicked Healthcare Lobbyists Descend On Massachusetts To Save The 60th Democratic Vote For Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/upset-in-massachusetts-special-senate-race-may-be-the-political-earthquake-of-2010-2010-1\">Upset In Massachusetts Special Senate Race May Be The Political Earthquake Of 2010<\/a><\/li>\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\/NyWll8Bergw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still hard to believe a Republican could win in deep-blue Massachusetts, but if you&#8217;re interested in healthcare reform you must pay attention to the election that will take place on January 19th. A new poll from PPP has GOP candidate Scott Brown leading Democrat Martha Coakley by 1 point. How could a Republican win [&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-162287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162287","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=162287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}