{"id":276665,"date":"2010-02-04T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.31742"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:50:46","slug":"rasmussen-post-primary-illinois-senate-poll-kirk-46-giannoulias-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276665","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen post-primary Illinois senate poll: Kirk 46, Giannoulias, 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/illinois\/election_2010_illinois_senate\">Rasmussen Reports came out with the first public post-Illinois primary poll on Thursday morning. &#8216;<\/a> Interesting finding in Rasmussen poll: While GOP nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.) is ahead of state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias by six points, there is a gender gap: Kirk leads among male voters &#8220;but trails his Democratic rival by 13 points among female voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen findings:<em> &#8220;Republican Mark Kirk holds a modest 46% to 40% lead over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in the race for the Illinois Senate following Tuesday&#8217;s party primaries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first post-primary Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the Kirk-Giannoulias race finds just four percent (4%) of likely voters in the state prefer some other candidate, while another 10% are undecided. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties, the Republican holds a sizable 59% to 22% lead. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In December, Giannoulias was up by three points over Kirk. In October, the two men were tied at 41% each. In mid-August, Kirk held a modest 41% to 38% lead over Giannoulias.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmussen Reports came out with the first public post-Illinois primary poll on Thursday morning. &#8216; Interesting finding in Rasmussen poll: While GOP nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.) is ahead of state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias by six points, there is a gender gap: Kirk leads among male voters &#8220;but trails his Democratic rival by 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276665","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}