{"id":267800,"date":"2010-02-02T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2010-02-02T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:27:53","slug":"getting-alexi-ready-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267800","title":{"rendered":"Getting Alexi Ready For November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight with the primary returns still coming in&#8230;representatives of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Organize for America and Senator Dick Durbin&#8217;s office gathered in Chicago to start looking ahead to a Giannoulias general election campaign. This was long before any concession or victory speeches.<\/p>\n<p>A democratic strategist tells Fox News Alexi Giannoulias is ready to emerge from the Democratic primary campaign a much strong and battle-tested candidate. It was noted by this strategist Giannoulias withstood having the White House &#8216;close the door on him&#8217;&#8230;opponents who went negative early&#8230;and a battering at the hands of the media about the Giannoulias family business Broadway Bank. Through it all&#8230;it appears Giannoulias will eek out a victory over David Hoffman and the rest of the primary field.<\/p>\n<p>This same veteran strategist predicts in the general election ahead&#8230;Republican nominee Mark Kirk will whither under similar scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk participated in few debates down the stretch in the primary campaign. That&#8217;s largely because month after month of polls showed Kirk&#8217;s opponents un-able to reach double-digits percentages in voter support.<\/p>\n<p>The democratic strategist says the general election will prove Kirk has a &#8220;glass jaw&#8221;&#8230;who cannot stand up to the kind of scrutiny Giannoulias has already survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight with the primary returns still coming in&#8230;representatives of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Organize for America and Senator Dick Durbin&#8217;s office gathered in Chicago to start looking ahead to a Giannoulias general election campaign. This was long before any concession or victory speeches. A democratic strategist tells Fox News Alexi Giannoulias is ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267800","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\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}