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
* Pennsylvania Gov. [tag]Ed Rendell[\/tag] (D) continues to excel on the campaign trail and a new Quinnipiac poll<\/a> shows his double-digit lead getting even bigger over former football player [tag]Lynn Swann[\/tag] (R). The results show Rendell ahead, 57% to 38%.<\/p>\n * Michigan’s gubernatorial race continues to look very competitive, and for a change, Gov. [tag]Jennifer Granholm[\/tag] (D) has reclaimed the lead over Amway heir [tag]Dick DeVos[\/tag]’ (R) in two statewide polls. A new Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows Granholm up, 47% to 46%, after trailing in last months poll by six points. A new Detroit News poll<\/a> shows Granholm with a slightly larger lead, 50% to 47%.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Michigan, Oakland County Sheriff [tag]Michael Bouchard[\/tag] (R) seems to have received a post-primary bump in the polls. A new Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows incumbent Sen. [tag]Debbie Stabenow[\/tag] (D) leading Bouchard, 49% to 44%, though Stabenow had led by double digits in recent months.<\/p>\n * In Alaska, Gov. [tag]Frank Murkowski[\/tag] (R) appears to be well on his way to losing a Republican primary, possibly even coming in third. A new Alaska poll<\/a> (.pdf) shows former Wasilla Mayor [tag]Sarah Palin[\/tag] in the lead with 40%, businessman [tag]John Binkley[\/tag] second with 29%, and Murkowski trailing with just 17%. (via Taegan Goddard<\/a>)<\/p>\n * Nevada had a slew of primaries yesterday. In the Senate race<\/a>, Sen. [tag]John Ensign[\/tag] and Democratic challenger [tag]Jack Carter[\/tag] had no trouble securing their party’s nomination; in the GOP primary in the 2nd district<\/a>, Secretary of State [tag]Dean Heller[\/tag] “squeaked out a 400-vote victory” over Assemblywoman [tag]Sharron Angle[\/tag]; [tag]Tessa Hafen[\/tag], former press secretary for Harry Reid, won the Democratic nomination to face Rep. [tag]Jon Porter[\/tag] (R) in Nevada’s 3rd district<\/a>; and in the governor’s race<\/a>, Rep. [tag]Jim Gibbons[\/tag] (R) and state Sen. [tag]Dina Titus[\/tag] (D) won their primary races.<\/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: * Pennsylvania Gov. [tag]Ed Rendell[\/tag] (D) continues to excel on the campaign trail and a new Quinnipiac poll shows his double-digit lead getting even bigger over former football player [tag]Lynn Swann[\/tag] (R). The […]<\/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-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218","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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}