{"id":3203,"date":"2006-08-08T20:04:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2006-08-08T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T03:11:22","slug":"raw-story-calls-ct-primary-for-lamont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Raw Story Calls CT Primary For Lamont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/WinterPatriot.blogspot.com\">Winter Patriot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ned_lamont.jpg\" hspace=8 vspace=4 align=\"right\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With more than 80% of the precincts reporting, and challenger <strong>Ned Lamont<\/strong> leading Senator <strong>Joe Lieberman<\/strong> by about four percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Raw_calls_Lamont_victor_in_Connecticut_0808.html\">Raw Story<\/a> has called the race (the Democratic primary for a run at the Senate) in favor of Lamont.<\/p>\n<p>The returns today have been been closer than we might have expected, given a poll last week that showed Lamont leading by 54% to 41%. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewesterlysun.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/08\/news\/news1.txt\">a more recent poll<\/a>, showing Lamont&#8217;s lead as 51%-45%, indicated that the race could be much closer than that.<\/p>\n<p>Based on previous experience, I always get nervous when a last-minute poll shows a big lead evaporating. I don&#8217;t want to cast aspersions, and I have no reason to disbelieve the poll, but I know that if I were trying to steal an election and my candidate was way behind in the polls, I would want a poll to come along just before the election saying that my candidate was gaining ground fast. <\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, it will be interesting to see whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\">Raw Story<\/a> got it right this time, or whether there will be any last-minute surprises.  <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I am not holding my breath. I&#8217;ve been to this party before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Winter Patriot With more than 80% of the precincts reporting, and challenger Ned Lamont leading Senator Joe Lieberman by about four percent, Raw Story has called the race (the Democratic primary for a run at the Senate) in favor of Lamont. The returns today have been been closer than we might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-election-2006","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}