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 Pennsylvania, Sen. [tag]Rick Santorum[\/tag] (R) closed the gap recently against [tag]Bob Casey[\/tag] (D), but he’s still not close to catching up to his challenger. A new Keystone Poll<\/a> shows Casey leading, 45% to 38%. Last month’s poll showed the race at almost the exact same point. Green Party nominee and GOP ally [tag]Carl Romanelli[\/tag] trails badly with 5%.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Pennsylvania, the state’s gubernatorial race appears to be far less competitive than the Senate race. The same poll<\/a> showed incumbent Gov. [tag]Ed Rendell[\/tag] (D) leading retired football player [tag]Lynn Swann[\/tag] (R), 52% to 34%. The margin is almost identical to last month’s Keystone poll.<\/p>\n * In nearby New Jersey, the latest Quinnipiac poll<\/a> shows state Sen. [tag]Tom Kean[\/tag], Jr., (R) continuing to hold a narrow lead over Sen. [tag]Bob Menendez[\/tag] (D), 48% to 45%. Both candidates look strong with their respective party bases, and independents break a little towards the challenger, 46% to 44%.<\/p>\n * In Hawaii’s Democratic Senate primary, Sen. [tag]Daniel Akaka[\/tag] (D) appears poised to fend off challenger Rep. [tag]Ed Case[\/tag] (D). The latest poll<\/a> from the Honolulu Advertiser shows the incumbent ahead, 51% to 38%.<\/p>\n * [tag]Bob Corker[\/tag], Tennessee’s Republican candidate for Senate, still hasn’t earned any cred with the anti-abortion movement. In 1994, he said he’s personally pro-life but doesn’t want to see the government get involved in the issue. He’s since repudiated his earlier comments, but Tennessee Right to Life still hasn’t forgiven him<\/a>, and the group is talking openly about staying home in November.<\/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 Pennsylvania, Sen. [tag]Rick Santorum[\/tag] (R) closed the gap recently against [tag]Bob Casey[\/tag] (D), but he’s still not close to catching up to his challenger. A new Keystone Poll shows Casey leading, […]<\/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-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","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=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}