{"id":576457,"date":"2010-05-24T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/05\/24\/perry-leads-white-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:40:40","slug":"perry-leads-white-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576457","title":{"rendered":"Perry Leads White in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/8x4S-8f-ri8\/perry_leads_white_in_texas.html\" >Perry Leads White in Texas             <\/a><br \/>The latest <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/stories\/2010\/may\/23\/name-leads-name-amount\/\">University of Texas\/Texas Tribune poll<\/a> finds Rick Perry (R) leads Bill White (D) by nine points, 44% to 35%, in the 2010 race for Texas governor.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The numbers in the races polled aren&#8217;t far from the generic party numbers in the poll. Asked which party&#8217;s candidate they&#8217;d support in their local races for Congress, 46 percent chose the Republican and 34 percent chose the Democrat; 15 percent were undecided and 5 percent chose &#8217;someone else.&#8217;&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/8x4S-8f-ri8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/ErKJodsKyLc\/quote_of_the_day.html\" >Quote of the Day             <\/a><br \/>&#8220;I venture to say we&#8217;re going to lay the smackdown on him come November.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8211;Co-Founder of World Wrestling Entertainment Linda McMahon (R), quoted by the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctmirror.org\/story\/6087\/mcmahon-captures-go-convention-vote-us-senate-simmons-vows-primary\">Connecticut Mirror<\/a>, on Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal (D).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/ErKJodsKyLc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/WGXQ6NQ3Imc\/blumenthal_apologizes.html\" >Blumenthal Apologizes             <\/a><br \/>&#8220;After nearly a week of criticism following revelations that he misrepresented his military record and five days after a press conference in which he expressed regret for his misstatements,&#8221; Richard Blumenthal (D) apologized in an email to the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/2010\/05\/blumenthal-i-have-made-mistake.html\">Hartford Courant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Wrote Blumenthal: &#8220;At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves. I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility for my words. I have made mistakes and I am sorry. I truly regret offending anyone.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/WGXQ6NQ3Imc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Leads White in Texas The latest University of Texas\/Texas Tribune poll finds Rick Perry (R) leads Bill White (D) by nine points, 44% to 35%, in the 2010 race for Texas governor. &#8220;The numbers in the races polled aren&#8217;t far from the generic party numbers in the poll. Asked which party&#8217;s candidate they&#8217;d support [&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-576457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576457","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=576457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}