{"id":549,"date":"2006-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"good-senate-election-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/good-senate-election-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Senate election link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2004 Presidential election, I really loved websites that had maps showing whether each state was Democrat, leaning Democrat, toss-up, leaning Republican, or Republican.  Well, this week I found a site that is doing the same thing for the 2006 Senate races.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/washington\/2006ELECTIONGUIDE.html?currentDataSet=senANALYSIS\">Here&#8217;s a link.<\/a>  You can click on a state for individual analysis of each race.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, according to the map, the Democrats have 46 strong or leaning seats (including uncontested seats this year), the Republicans have 51 strong or leaning, and there are three toss-ups.  Tennessee is considered to be leaning Republican, so Harold Ford Jr. has his work cut out for him.  Even if Democrats win the three toss-ups, they&#8217;ll need Jr. just to get to 50-50.  And even that isn&#8217;t enough, because in case of a tie, Dick Cheney votes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here typing this from the Second Street branch office.  Looks like the pool table will remain assembled tonight, although I&#8217;m sitting on the inside on one of the rails so I don&#8217;t really have a good view of it.  They have two trainees working tonight, and even though neither of them are from Romania, I still have to say, management did a VERY good job with their most recent hiring decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Time to shut down the laptop and get a little beer drinking done.  See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2004 Presidential election, I really loved websites that had maps showing whether each state was Democrat, leaning Democrat, toss-up, leaning Republican, or Republican. Well, this week I found a site that is doing the same thing for the 2006 Senate races. Here&#8217;s a link. You can click on a state for individual analysis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/good-senate-election-link\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Senate election link&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->