{"id":412043,"date":"2010-03-10T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78893"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:46:19","slug":"poll-democrat-bounces-back-in-il-sen-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412043","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Democrat Bounces Back in IL-Sen Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican response to Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrats&#8217; nominee for President Obama&#8217;s old Senate seat in Illinois, has been one of outright derision. As soon as he locked up his nomination last month, the NRSC blasted out a video tying Giannoulias to the scandals surrounding his family&#8217;s Broadway Bank; when Giannoulias visited the White House yesterday, the NRSC mocked Giannoulias when Obama called him a &#8220;potential&#8221; (as opposed to &#8220;the next&#8221;) senator from Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Now Giannoulias is getting a boost from, of all things, a Rasmussen Poll &#8212; it shows him <a href=\"http:\/\/thecapitolfaxblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/rasmussen-giannoulias-over-kirk-42-41\/\">jumping into a lead<\/a> over Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) since last month. (Scott Rasmussen has confirmed to me that the leaked results are accurate.)<span id=\"more-78893\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alexi Giannoulias (D) &#8211; 44 (+4)<br \/>\nMark Kirk (R) &#8211; 41 (-5)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s after an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TG2QVH_u-mI\">air-clearing interview<\/a> that, many Democrats thought, didn&#8217;t do much for Giannoulias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican response to Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrats&#8217; nominee for President Obama&#8217;s old Senate seat in Illinois, has been one of outright derision. As soon as he locked up his nomination last month, the NRSC blasted out a video tying Giannoulias to the scandals surrounding his family&#8217;s Broadway Bank; when Giannoulias visited the White House [&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-412043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412043","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=412043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}