{"id":579454,"date":"2010-05-26T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/05\/26\/favored-gop-candidate-loses-in-upset\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T07:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:41:45","slug":"favored-gop-candidate-loses-in-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579454","title":{"rendered":"Favored GOP Candidate Loses in Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/ULRX68g_mc8\/favored_gop_candidate_loses_in_upset.html\" >Favored GOP Candidate Loses in Upset             <\/a><br \/>Raul Labrador (R) won an upset primary victory in Idaho&#8217;s 1st congressional district last night, defeating military veteran Vaughn Ward (R), the favored candidate of the Washington Republican establishment, <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/37790.html\">Politico<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>  Labrador will face Rep. Walt Minnick (D-ID) in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>  <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/house\/top-gop-recruit-vaughn-ward-lo.html\">The Fix<\/a>: &#8220;Ward becomes the latest establishment favorite to go down in defeat, although his loss will more likely be chalked up to his campaign&#8217;s <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/21\/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html\">myriad gaffes<\/a>.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/ULRX68g_mc8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/JJLY0YokW-0\/obama_approval_on_the_rise.html\" >Obama Approval on the Rise             <\/a><br \/>A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 48% of American voters approve of the job President Obama is doing, while 43% disapprove. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time since December that more voters give him a thumbs up rather than thumbs down.<\/p>\n<p>   Said pollster Peter Brown: &#8220;The increase in President Barack Obama&#8217;s job approval is a welcome step for the White House.  His ratings have been in the no man&#8217;s land of just below parity for some time and now the question is whether this is the beginning of an upward trend or just a blip.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/JJLY0YokW-0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/qP3p60qR8sQ\/democrats_grab_back_lead_in_generic_ballot.html\" >Democrats Grab Back Lead in Generic Ballot             <\/a><br \/>A new Quinnipiac poll finds American voters prefer a Democrat over a Republican in this year&#8217;s midterm elections by a 42% to 36% margin, reversing a 44% to 39% Republican lead just two months ago.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/qP3p60qR8sQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favored GOP Candidate Loses in Upset Raul Labrador (R) won an upset primary victory in Idaho&#8217;s 1st congressional district last night, defeating military veteran Vaughn Ward (R), the favored candidate of the Washington Republican establishment, Politico reports. Labrador will face Rep. Walt Minnick (D-ID) in the general election. The Fix: &#8220;Ward becomes the latest establishment [&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-579454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579454","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=579454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}