{"id":217353,"date":"2010-01-18T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1319"},"modified":"2010-01-18T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T00:28:29","slug":"capital-eyes-politiquizz-whos-that-not-so-blue-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217353","title":{"rendered":"Capital Eye’s PolitiQuizz: Who’s That Not-So-Blue Democrat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conservative Democrats? There is such a thing? You betcha! And we’re looking for one in particular for this week’s Capital Eye<\/a> PolitiQuizz.<\/div>\n
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YOUR CHALLENGE:<\/b> “I’m a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Yes, I’m a Democrat, but I occasionally run afoul of my own party. For example, I generally oppose abortion rights. I once accused the Obama administration of trying to shut me up. And this election cycle, I donated $1,000 from my leadership PAC to now-Republican Rep. Parker Griffith. The top three industries backing me this election cycle, in terms of campaign contributions? Lobbyists, construction services and lawyers\/law firms. Who am I?<\/i>“<\/div>\n
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The first person to correctly answer this question by leaving an answer in this blog post’s comments section will win a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/font><\/a>, the new book for which the Center for Responsive Politics provides data and analysis. Answers will be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday. Results will be posted as part of next Monday’s PolitiQuizz. (Make sure to provide your e-mail address so we may contact you if you win!)<\/p>\n

Now back to last week’s question, when we asked you this:<\/p>\n

“During this current election cycle, my residents have so far given more than 63 percent of their campaign contributions to Democrats. Among business industries and special interest groups, lawyers and law firms are most likely to make a donation. Although my state capital is my political seat, another metropolitan area within my boundaries accounts for exponentially more political contributions. And among all presidential campaign candidates in 2008, Democrat Barack Obama placed second in contributions from my residents. Incidentally, Republican nominee John McCain was not<\/u> first. What state am I<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

The answer: Delaware<\/a><\/span>. (The residents of the First State donated more money to short-lived presidential candidate Joe Biden<\/a>, who suspended his campaign after a horrendous finish in the 2009 Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Jeff Patch, who was the first (and only) person among our 19 PolitiQuizz takers last week to correctly answer “Delaware.” Jeff will therefore win a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservative Democrats? There is such a thing? You betcha! And we’re looking for one in particular for this week’s Capital Eye PolitiQuizz. YOUR CHALLENGE: “I’m a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Yes, I’m a Democrat, but I occasionally run afoul of my own party. For example, I generally oppose abortion rights. I once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217353","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\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}