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
* With just over a week before the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, some major newspaper endorsements ran. The state’s two largest newspapers, the Hartford Courant<\/a> and Connecticut Post<\/a> both ran editorials backing Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag], as did the Washington Post<\/a>, but the New York Times<\/a> endorsed challenger [tag]Ned Lamont[\/tag], concluding that Lieberman had become an “enabler” for Republican policies.<\/p>\n * In Virginia, Sen. [tag]George Allen[\/tag] (R) continues to lead former Navy Secretary [tag]James Webb[\/tag] (D) by double digits. In a Mason-Dixon poll<\/a> released yesterday, Allen is ahead, 48% to 32%.<\/p>\n * The latest Rasmussen poll<\/a> in Tennessee shows Rep. [tag]Harold Ford[\/tag] (D) still trailing his GOP rivals, but by significantly different margins. The poll shows former Chattanooga Mayor [tag]Bob Corker[\/tag] (R) leading Ford 49% to 37%, former Rep. Van Hilleary (R) is ahead 44% to 40%, and former Rep. Ed Bryant (R) is up 44% to 41%. Republicans will pick their candidate this week, and recent polls show Corker with a big lead.<\/p>\n * The New York Daily News today profiled<\/a> [tag]John Spencer[\/tag]’s (R) Senate campaign against Sen. Hillary Clinton, and quoted one former aide saying the campaign is “a total mess,” with poor fundraising and three top staff members quietly departing, including Spencer’s campaign manager, spokesman, and top consultant.<\/p>\n * And in 2008 news, Massachusetts Gov. [tag]Mitt Romney[\/tag] (R) was campaigning in Iowa over the weekend, and responded to the recent controversy over structural problems with the Big Dig highway project. Romney told an audience, “The best thing for me to do politically is stay away from the Big Dig — just get as far away from that tar baby as I possibly can.” Romney’s office later apologized<\/a>. “The governor was describing a sticky situation,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, the governor’s spokesman. “He was unaware that some people find the term objectionable, and he’s sorry if anyone was offended.”<\/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: * With just over a week before the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, some major newspaper endorsements ran. The state’s two largest newspapers, the Hartford Courant and Connecticut Post both ran editorials backing […]<\/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-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}