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
* In Massachusetts’ three-way gubernatorial race, a new Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows all three Dems — [tag]Deval Patrick[\/tag], [tag]Tom Reilly[\/tag], and [tag]Chris Gabrieli[\/tag] — with double-digit leads over Lt. Gov. [tag]Kerry Healey[\/tag] (R) and [tag]Christy Mihos[\/tag] (I). Gabrieli has the biggest margin, leading Healey by 20 points. The Dem primary is Sept. 12.<\/p>\n * A new St. Petersburg Times poll<\/a> shows Florida Attorney General [tag]Charlie Crist[\/tag] (R) cruising to the Republican gubernatorial nomination, leading [tag]Tom Gallagher[\/tag] (R), 50% to 26%. On the other side of the aisle, there are reports of the Dem primary getting more competitive, but this poll showed Rep. [tag]Jim Davis[\/tag] (D) with a double-digit lead over state Sen. [tag]Rod Smith[\/tag] (D), 35% to 21%, with a whopping 44% still undecided with just three weeks before the Sept. 5 primary.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Florida, the same St. Petersburg Times poll<\/a> also found that Rep. [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag] holds a “commanding lead over three largely unknown opponents” in the Senate GOP primary, but the controversial candidate isn’t even close to keeping up with incumbent Sen. [tag]Bill Nelson[\/tag] (D). The poll found Nelson ahead, 60% to 25%.<\/p>\n * A new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll<\/a> shows incumbent Sen. [tag]John Ensign[\/tag] (R-Nev.) with a big lead over [tag]Jack Carter[\/tag] (D), 54% to 33%. A recent Rasmussen poll showed the race tightening to single digits, but these numbers suggest it was an outlier.<\/p>\n * And in the always-fascinating Connecticut Senate race, Taegan Goddard reported<\/a> this morning that White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said today that the president will not endorse GOP candidate [tag]Alan Schlesinger[\/tag] over Joe Lieberman. Yesterday on Meet the Press, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman also hedged<\/a> on official Republican support for Schlesinger.<\/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: * In Massachusetts’ three-way gubernatorial race, a new Rasmussen poll shows all three Dems — [tag]Deval Patrick[\/tag], [tag]Tom Reilly[\/tag], and [tag]Chris Gabrieli[\/tag] — with double-digit leads over Lt. Gov. [tag]Kerry Healey[\/tag] (R) and […]<\/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-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","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=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}