{"id":379556,"date":"2010-03-02T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78022"},"modified":"2010-03-02T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T14:54:49","slug":"poll-specter-bounces-back-against-toomey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379556","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Specter Bounces Back Against Toomey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) gets his first good news in a while with a Quinnipiac poll that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1428&amp;What=&amp;strArea=;&amp;strTime=0\">has him recovering a lead<\/a> over Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate who nearly ousted the senator in 2004. He has a 49-42 lead and a 48 percent approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>Other, ambient good news for Democrats &#8212; Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has a robust 53-29 job approval rating and President Obama, despite slippage with independents, is hovering at 49 percent approval, just where he&#8217;s been since October 2009. I think that&#8217;s in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/polls\/us\/jobapproval-obama.php\">national polls<\/a> which argue against the narrative of some Obama freefall &#8212; the president has been bruised but narrowly popular for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) gets his first good news in a while with a Quinnipiac poll that has him recovering a lead over Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate who nearly ousted the senator in 2004. He has a 49-42 lead and a 48 percent approval rating. Other, ambient good news for Democrats &#8212; Sen. Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379556","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}