Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* John Edwards and Hillary Clinton continue to pick up union endorsements<\/a>, with each earning the support of a major transportation union yesterday. The 200,000-strong Transport Union Workers threw its weight behind Edwards’ campaign, while the 65,000-strong Transportation Communications Union endorsed Clinton. Edwards, meanwhile, also announced that he now has 2 million union supporters, more than any other candidate.<\/p>\n * Chris Dodd announced yesterday that he will not support<\/a> any funding bill for Iraq that does not include a withdrawal timeline. Dodd challenged Clinton and Obama to make the same commitment.<\/p>\n * Putting an end to some speculation about his ambitions, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (D) announced that he will not run<\/a> for governor of Louisiana.<\/p>\n * A Pew Research Center poll released yesterday showed that Americans perceive Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani as the least religious<\/a> of the major presidential candidates. Giuliani, sure, but Clinton has always struck me as one of the most<\/i> religious. Once again, there’s a gap between perception and reality when it comes to the senator from New York.<\/p>\n * The DSCC held a bumper-sticker-message contest for the 2008 cycle, and announced the winner<\/a> this morning. Not bad.<\/p>\n * The GOP primary to replace retiring Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) hasn’t even started yet, but there are signs that it’s going to get ugly. The far-right Club for Growth is already going after<\/a> Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), blasting him for having “one of the most economically liberal records among Republicans in the House.”<\/p>\n * And the LAT had an interesting piece<\/a> on Fred Thompson’s youth and his start in GOP politics. Apparently, Thompson married at 17 after getting his high-school sweetheart pregnant. His first wife was the daughter of one of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee’s leading Republican families, which helped put Thompson though school and got his career started. As Dana Goldstein put it<\/a>, “[T]here’s nothing like pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * John Edwards and Hillary Clinton continue to pick up union endorsements, with each earning the support of a major transportation union yesterday. The 200,000-strong Transport Union Workers threw its weight behind Edwards’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}