{"id":270762,"date":"2010-02-03T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:49:59","slug":"illinois-senate-race-%e2%80%a6-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270762","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Senate race \u2026 meh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois voters are not too thrilled with their choices for US Senate, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/giannoulias-and-kirk-both-pretty-weak.html\">Public Policy Polling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think one of the most striking things about last night&#8217;s Illinois primary results for Senate is how poorly both Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk closed.<\/p>\n<p>In the December Chicago Tribune poll Giannoulias was at 31%, followed by Cheryle Jackson at 17%, and David Hoffman with 9%. There were 35% undecided. Giannoulias ended up with 39% to 34% for Hoffman and 20% for Jackson. That suggests that over the final seven weeks of the campaign Hoffman picked up more than 70% of those who had been undecided to 23% for Giannoulias and less than 10% for Jackson. Not too impressive and you have to wonder how far Hoffman&#8217;s momentum would have carried him if he&#8217;d had another week or two.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk didn&#8217;t do all that well as the campaign heated up either though. In that December survey he had 41% to 3% for Patrick Hughes and a total of 10% for the variety of lower tier candidates in the race. Based on the final results he appears to have picked up about 37% of the undecideds from that point on to 35% for Hughes and 28% for the assortment of less serious candidates. Given how little money any of his opponents were spending that&#8217;s not too impressive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois voters are not too thrilled with their choices for US Senate, according to Public Policy Polling: I think one of the most striking things about last night&#8217;s Illinois primary results for Senate is how poorly both Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk closed. In the December Chicago Tribune poll Giannoulias was at 31%, followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270762","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\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}