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
* Connecticut’s Dem Senate primary is getting a little closer, though Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag] (D) still enjoys a sizable lead. According to a new Rasmussen poll<\/a>, Lieberman leads businessman [tag]Ned Lamont[\/tag] (D), 51% to 31% among Connecticut Dems.<\/p>\n * According to the latest Elway poll<\/a> in Washington state, incumbent Sen. [tag]Maria Cantwell[\/tag] (D) continues to lead businessman [tag]Mike McGavick[\/tag] (R), 52% to 23%. McGavick has spending freely to help boost his statewide name recognition, but so far, Cantwell is above the 50% threshold, and McGavick can’t close the gap (via Taegan Goddard<\/a>).<\/p>\n * New York’s gubernatorial campaign still looks like a rather dull affair, with state Attorney General [tag]Eliot Spitzer[\/tag] (D) enjoying a commanding lead over his GOP rivals — this time, among Republican voters<\/i><\/a>. According to a new Siena College poll, Spitzer’s lead over [tag]William Weld[\/tag] and [tag]John Faso[\/tag] among Republicans is in the double digits.<\/p>\n * Speaking of New York, the same Siena College poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton leading her GOP rivals by 25 points or more<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Last week, a Rhode Island College poll showed Sen. [tag]Linc Chafee[\/tag] (R) with a big lead<\/a> over former state Attorney General [tag]Sheldon Whitehouse[\/tag] (D), 51% to 32%. This week, the latest Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows a much closer race, with Chafee ahead, 44% to 41%. In the unlikely chance Cranston Mayor [tag]Stephen Laffey[\/tag] (R) beats Chafee in a GOP primary, Whitehouse would beat him easily, 51% to 32%.<\/p>\n * And in Florida, Congress Daily reported (no link available) that Rep. [tag]Mark Foley[\/tag] (R) said the chances of him taking on Rep. [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag] (R) in Florida’s GOP Senate primary are “very, very…slim.” Foley noted with some enthusiasm, however, that state House Speaker [tag]Allan Bense[\/tag] might throw his hat into the ring.<\/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: * Connecticut’s Dem Senate primary is getting a little closer, though Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag] (D) still enjoys a sizable lead. According to a new Rasmussen poll, Lieberman leads businessman [tag]Ned Lamont[\/tag] (D), 51% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","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=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}