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 Colorado, former Denver District Attorney [tag]Bill Ritter[\/tag] (D) continues to look surprisingly strong in against Rep. [tag]Bob Beauprez[\/tag] (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race. A new Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows Ritter ahead, 48% to 39%.<\/p>\n * A new Quinnipiac poll shows state Treasurer [tag]Bob Casey[\/tag] (D) leading<\/a> an increasingly tight, three-way Senate race in Pennsylvania. Casey is out in front with 45%, Sen. [tag]Rick Santorum[\/tag] (R) is second with 39%, and Green Party candidate\/GOP ally [tag]Carl Romanelli[\/tag] garners 5%.<\/p>\n * In Ohio, embattled Rep. [tag]Bob Ney[\/tag] (R) officially requested that his name be taken off the November ballot<\/a> yesterday, sparking a special primary election to choose the GOP nominee. Had he waited until after Aug. 19, party leaders would have been able to choose a replacement.<\/p>\n * Desperate for any traction at all, former Yonkers Mayor [tag]John Spencer[\/tag] (R) launched<\/a> a vitriolic new ad against Sen. [tag]Hillary Clinton[\/tag] (D) yesterday, which juxtaposes slides showing Clinton and Osama Bin Laden, and accuses the senator of wanting to eliminate Bush’s warrantless-search program (she doesn’t; she wants it to be legal). State Dem Chairman Denny Farrell said, “This is a smear, and the voters are not going to accept it.”<\/p>\n * Nevada holds today’s only primaries today, but few expect any real surprises. In the gubernatorial race, Rep. [tag]Jim Gibbons[\/tag] (R) and State Senator [tag]Dina Titus[\/tag] (D) will probably win their party’s respective nominations without too much trouble. As Taegan Goddard noted<\/a>, the race to watch may be the three-way GOP primary<\/a> in Nevada’s 2nd district to replace Gibbons, with Gibbons’ wife Dawn Gibbons, Assemblywoman Sharron Angle and Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller facing off.<\/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 Colorado, former Denver District Attorney [tag]Bill Ritter[\/tag] (D) continues to look surprisingly strong in against Rep. [tag]Bob Beauprez[\/tag] (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race. A new Rasmussen poll shows Ritter ahead, […]<\/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-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","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=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}