{"id":17181,"date":"2010-02-03T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17181"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:41:47","slug":"2010-senate-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17181","title":{"rendered":"2010 Senate predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17064\">COB6 has been making Senate predictions<\/a> since last month. now John Hawkins of Right Wing News weighs in with his <a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnews.com\/2010\/02\/the-gops-top-10-best-opportunities-to-pick-up-senate-seats-in-2010\/\">GOP&#8217;s Top 10 Best Opportunities To Pick up Senate Seats in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>10) State: Washington<br \/>\n2008 Presidential numbers: Obama 58% vs. McCain 41%<br \/>\nCurrently held by: Patty Murray<br \/>\nRanking: Likely Democrat Hold (90% chance of Dem hold) &#8212; unless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Analysis: Murray&#8217;s favorability ratings are right around 50%, but in a leftward leaning state with no blue chip candidate to go against her, Murray&#8217;s seat is probably safe. That is, safe unless Dino Rossi decides to run.<\/p>\n<p>According to a GOP polling firm, two-time Republican candidate for governor, Dino Rossi was beating Murray 45% to 43%. Could Rossi pull off a victory? Yes, he could. Will he run? That&#8217;s hard to say. However, if Rossi were to run, this race would turn from a likely Democrat hold to a toss-up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COB6 has been making Senate predictions since last month. now John Hawkins of Right Wing News &hellip; <a title=\"2010 Senate predictions\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17181\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010 Senate predictions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}