{"id":444346,"date":"2010-03-18T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/18\/many-undecided-in-race-for-connecticut-governor\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:41:01","slug":"many-undecided-in-race-for-connecticut-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444346","title":{"rendered":"Many Undecided in Race for Connecticut Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/58hjtz6S1fU\/many_undecided_in_race_for_connecticut_governor.html\" >Many Undecided in Race for Connecticut Governor             <\/a><br \/>A new <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1434&amp;What=&amp;strArea=;&amp;strTime=0\">Quinnipiac poll<\/a> in Connecticut finds &#8220;undecided&#8221; is the big leader in the Democratic and Republican primary race for governor.<\/p>\n<p>  Among Democrats, 44% of voters are undecided, while Ned Lamont (D) gets 28% and Dan Malloy (D) gets 18%.<\/p>\n<p>   On the Republican side, 50% are undecided, while Tom Foley (R) has 30% and no other candidate tops 4%.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/58hjtz6S1fU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/EobigJ5ct5U\/illinois_moves_back_primary_date.html\" >Illinois Moves Back Primary Date             <\/a><br \/>After Illinois set a modern record for low turnout in February&#8217;s primary, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to move the date back to March, the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/03\/illinois-primary-election-moved-back-to-march-after-scott-lee-cohen-debacle-record-low-turnout.html\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Holding the election so soon after the holidays and creating a compressed campaign season also is partly blamed for Democrats picking the unheralded but free spending Chicago pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen as the party&#8217;s lieutenant governor nominee. Cohen&#8217;s candidacy imploded following <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/05\/democrats_have_a_big_problem_in_illinois.html\">troubling revelations<\/a> about his personal life, and Quinn now finds himself searching for a running mate six weeks after the primary was supposed to have settled the issue.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/EobigJ5ct5U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/i8ftaa05qHk\/safest_districts_held_by_democrats.html\" >Safest Districts Held by Democrats             <\/a><br \/>An interesting <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/cspg\/smartpolitics\/2010\/03\/the_50_safest_us_house_distric.php\">Smart Politics<\/a> analysis finds that Democrats currently hold 43 of the 50 least competitive House seats in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>  In fact, John Lewis (GA-5), Kendrick Meek (FL-17), and Richard Neal (MA-2) have not faced a Republican challenger since new district lines were drawn in 2002. Neal has not faced a GOP opponent since 1996.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/i8ftaa05qHk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Undecided in Race for Connecticut Governor A new Quinnipiac poll in Connecticut finds &#8220;undecided&#8221; is the big leader in the Democratic and Republican primary race for governor. Among Democrats, 44% of voters are undecided, while Ned Lamont (D) gets 28% and Dan Malloy (D) gets 18%. On the Republican side, 50% are undecided, while [&hellip;]<\/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-444346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444346","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=444346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}