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
* The Connecticut Senate race may prove to be a close one after all. Last week, a Quinnipiac poll showed [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag] (I) jumping out to a double-digit lead over [tag]Ned Lamont[\/tag] (D) and [tag]Alan Schlesinger[\/tag] (R), but a Rasmussen poll<\/a> released yesterday showed a much closer contest. Rasmussen has Lieberman in the lead with 45%, followed closely by Lamont at 42%. Schlesinger is barely beating the margin of error with 6%. Bolstering the reliability of these results is a new poll<\/a> from American Research Group, which has Lieberman leading Lamont, 44% to 42%.<\/p>\n * In Tennessee, Rep. [tag]Harold Ford[\/tag] Jr., the Democratic Senate hopeful, released a new internal poll showing him * Yesterday, a Rasmussen poll<\/a> showed Arkansas’ gubernatorial race getting more competitive. A few hours later, an Arkansas News Bureau poll showed the opposite<\/a>. The latter showed state Attorney General [tag]Mike Beebe[\/tag] (D) with a “commanding lead” over former Rep. [tag]Asa Hutchinson[\/tag] (R), 52% to 31%.<\/p>\n * In Wisconsin, two Rasmussen polls show Dems in the lead in the state’s two big races, but by very different margins. In the Senate race<\/a>, incumbent [tag]Herb Kohl[\/tag] now leads challenger Robert Gerald Lorge by 28 points, 59% to 31%. In the gubernatorial race<\/a>, incumbent Gov. [tag]Jim Doyle[\/tag] (D) is ahead of Rep. [tag]Mark Green[\/tag] (R), 49% to 41%.<\/p>\n * And yesterday was primary day in 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: * The Connecticut Senate race may prove to be a close one after all. Last week, a Quinnipiac poll showed [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag] (I) jumping out to a double-digit lead over [tag]Ned Lamont[\/tag] (D) […]<\/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-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}almost tied<\/strike> leading<\/a> former Chattanooga Mayor [tag]Bob Corker[\/tag] (R). The results, released late yesterday, show Ford leading Corker, 44% to 42%. (thanks to reader S.T. for the tip)<\/p>\nIdaho<\/strike> Alaska, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. Most of the results<\/a> were predictable, but two races were particularly noteworthy. In Wyoming, Rep. [tag]Barbara Cubin[\/tag] (R) managed to get by<\/a> a political novice who had never run for elected office in a GOP primary, with 60% support. For a long-time incumbent, the results suggest Cubin may have a real problem in November against Democrat [tag]Gary Trauner[\/tag]. And in Alaska, incumbent Gov. [tag]Frank Murkowski[\/tag] (R) finished a distant third<\/a> in a three-way GOP primary. Former Wasilla Mayor [tag]Sarah Palin[\/tag] (R) won the Republican nomination, and will face former two-term Gov. [tag]Tony Knowles[\/tag] (D) in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"