{"id":569307,"date":"2010-05-18T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78217"},"modified":"2010-05-18T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:52:19","slug":"cook-political-report-blumenthal-race-is-now-toss-up-vietnam-story-marks-huge-turnaround-for-cook-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569307","title":{"rendered":"Cook Political Report: Blumenthal Race Is Now Toss-Up; Vietnam Story Marks Huge Turnaround For Cook Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Political Report &#8211; one of the most highly respected, non-partisan&nbsp;national analyses&nbsp;&#8211; is now saying that the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut is a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>The change for the report comes on the day that The New York Times published a front-page story and released a video that shows that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that he served in Vietnam when he did not. The change in the rating for the race is a major turnaround from the conventional wisdom, which placed Blumenthal far ahead of all challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal is seeking the Democratic nomination on Friday night at the state party convention in Hartford, and challenger Merrick Alpert would need 15 percent of the delegates to force a primary in August.<\/p>\n<p>Politico is reporting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/37440.html\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/37440.html<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;Alpert now&nbsp;has a new lease on life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Political Report &#8211; one of the most highly respected, non-partisan&nbsp;national analyses&nbsp;&#8211; is now saying that the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut is a toss-up. The change for the report comes on the day that The New York Times published a front-page story and released a video that shows that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569307","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}