{"id":3679,"date":"2005-03-07T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3679.html"},"modified":"2005-03-07T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T16:01:48","slug":"mondays-political-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mondays-political-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday’s political round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an item<\/a> on Friday, I’m introducing a new feature about campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may nevertheless be of interest to political observers.<\/p>\n

* Betty Castor, who lost a tough Senate race to Mel Martinez five months ago, announced Friday she won’t run for governor<\/a> next year. Up until recently, she was largely considered the frontrunner. She’s the second top-tier candidate to withdraw from the race, following Lawton Chiles Jr.’s departure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to check out DemsTV.com<\/a>, started by two party consultants. As the Washington Post described it<\/a>, DemsTV.com will be online political talk show that will “showcase the party’s message, lambaste Republicans and, they hope, open a new front in the ongoing media wars.”<\/p>\n

* Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn (D) has overseen a healthy local economy and a falling crime rate, but he’s still in for a tough election tomorrow<\/a> against two other Dems, Bob Hertzberg and Antonio Villaraigosa, both former speakers of the State Assembly. The two top vote-getters in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary will meet in a runoff election in mid-May.<\/p>\n

* Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr. made it official<\/a> Friday, announcing that he will challenge Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum in next year’s Senate race.<\/p>\n

* Edward Kennedy believes John Kerry will run<\/a> for president in 2008.<\/p>\n

* Hillary Clinton is doing a surprisingly good job winning over her Republican colleagues from New York<\/a>, which may have something to do with the fact that no one seems willing to run against her.<\/p>\n

* Just a week after Howard Dean rallied Dems in Kansas, John Edwards hit the stump<\/a> in Topeka on Friday and received a warm reception from a state that’s not used to getting this much attention from national Dems.<\/p>\n

* And, finally, Bill Frist continues to spend a disproportionate amount of his time in New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an item on Friday, I’m introducing a new feature about campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may nevertheless be of interest to political observers. * Betty Castor, who lost a tough Senate race to Mel Martinez five months ago, announced Friday she won’t run for […]<\/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-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}