{"id":230885,"date":"2010-01-26T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/26\/brown-senate-win-caught-press-napping\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:32:18","slug":"brown-senate-win-caught-press-napping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230885","title":{"rendered":"Brown Senate Win Caught Press Napping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/01\/25\/brown_senate_win_caught_press_napping_228328.html\" >Brown Senate Win Caught Press Napping \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Howard Kurtz, Washington Post<br \/>If Martha Coakley&apos;s defeat in Massachusetts was a political earthquake, most journalists were slow to hear the tremors.  Her chances of beating an obscure Republican in the race for Ted Kennedy&apos;s Senate seat seemed so overwhelming that national news organizations largely ignored the contest until the stretch run. The mainstream media were lulled into complacency by Coakley&apos;s big lead in the polls and Massachusetts&apos;s reputation as the bluest of blue states.  &quot;The national press, and frankly to some extent the local press, were taken by surprise,&quot; says Mark&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/25\/is_the_senate_also_in_play_100030.html\" >Is the Senate Also in Play? \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics<br \/>Last week I challenged the conventional wisdom that the House of Representatives is not in play.  After Scott Brown&rsquo;s five-point victory in Massachusetts, it is worth asking wheter the Senate is in play as well.  If a Republican can win in a fairly high turnout election (with about as many ballots cast as in the 2006 gubernatorial election) in Massachusetts, is there anywhere they can&rsquo;t win?The answer is that the Senate is competitive &ndash; but barely.  There are seven Senate seats that Republicans have an excellent shot at winning.  After that, the going gets very&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/01\/25\/hugo_chavez039s_revolution_collapsing_228317.html\" >Hugo Chavez&#8217;s Revolution Collapsing \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Jackson Diehl, Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Senate Win Caught Press Napping Howard Kurtz, Washington PostIf Martha Coakley&apos;s defeat in Massachusetts was a political earthquake, most journalists were slow to hear the tremors. Her chances of beating an obscure Republican in the race for Ted Kennedy&apos;s Senate seat seemed so overwhelming that national news organizations largely ignored the contest until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230885","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}