{"id":569368,"date":"2010-05-18T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=19464"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:42:01","slug":"pa-gov-not-surprised-by-specter-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569368","title":{"rendered":"PA Gov Not Surprised by Specter Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; He saw it coming and he wasn&#8217;t surprised, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell told Fox News Tuesday night after Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter delivered his concession speech having lost out the Democratic primary to opponent Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.<\/p>\n<p>The ballroom never filled for Specter&#8217;s post-vote party and it quickly emptied after the senior senator&#8217;s brief remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To some extent, it was both a challenge convincing Democrats who knew he&#8217;d only been in the party a year, and the anti-incumbent mood,&#8221; Rendell said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the many labor endorsements, the party couldn&#8217;t mobilize and get that vote out for Specter.<\/p>\n<p>Rendell called the defeat a message to incumbents of both parties.<\/p>\n<p>While the national trend this season seems to be leaning towards putting incumbents in the endangered species category, specific to the Sestak-Specter match-up, Specter&#8217;s thirty-year incumbency as a Republican was the main factor at play in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Specter changed from the Republican party to the Democratic party last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sestak will face off with Republican Pat Toomey in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; He saw it coming and he wasn&#8217;t surprised, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell told Fox News Tuesday night after Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter delivered his concession speech having lost out the Democratic primary to opponent Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa. The ballroom never filled for Specter&#8217;s post-vote party and it quickly emptied after the senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569368","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\/7007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}