{"id":429109,"date":"2010-03-15T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/15\/poll-shows-thompson-leading-feingold\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:42:56","slug":"poll-shows-thompson-leading-feingold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429109","title":{"rendered":"Poll Shows Thompson Leading Feingold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poll Shows Thompson Leading Feingold <\/a>
A new Wisconsin Policy Research Institute poll<\/a> shows Tommy Thompson (R) leading Sen. Russ Feingold (D) in a possible U.S. Senate match up, 51% to 39%.<\/p>\n

A Feingold spokesman criticized WPRI as a group with strong Republican ties.<\/p>\n

Mark Blumenthal<\/a> has a good piece on a controversy with WPRI data and notes that if nothing else, it “demonstrates the increasing difficulty consumers of polling data have in identifying potential conflicts in the sponsorship and funding of public polling.” <\/p>\n

Another Strange Ad from Fiorina <\/a>
Swampland<\/a> has the latest attack ad from U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) — infamous for the “Demon Sheep<\/a>” attack on primary opponent Tom Campbell (R) — this time aimed at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).<\/p>\n

Ben Smith<\/a> notes the ad, titled “Hot Air<\/a>,” describes Fiorina as “a 5-foot-6-inch fireball” and attacks Boxer’s record with special ferocity, saying she “spent 18 years in the Senate and only passed three tiny bills.”
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Obama Losing Chance to Reshape Judiciary <\/a>
“An early chance for the Obama administration to reshape the nation’s judiciary — and counter gains made in the federal courts by conservatives — appears close to slipping away, due to a combination of White House inattention and Republican opposition,” the Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

“During President Obama’s first year, judicial nominations trickled out of the White House at a far slower pace than in President George W. Bush’s first year. Bush announced 11 nominees for federal appeals courts in the fourth month of his tenure. Obama didn’t nominate his 11th appeals court judge until November, his 10th month in office.”<\/p>\n

“Moreover, Obama nominees are being confirmed at a much slower rate than those of his predecessor, largely because of the gridlocked Senate.” <\/p>\n

Quote of the Day <\/a>
“[Sunday talk shows] will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land.”<\/p>\n

— White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, quoted by The Hill<\/a>, predicting the passage of health care reform this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poll Shows Thompson Leading Feingold A new Wisconsin Policy Research Institute poll shows Tommy Thompson (R) leading Sen. Russ Feingold (D) in a possible U.S. Senate match up, 51% to 39%. A Feingold spokesman criticized WPRI as a group with strong Republican ties. Mark Blumenthal has a good piece on a controversy with WPRI data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429109","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}