{"id":7379,"date":"2012-09-01T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2012-09-01T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:18:11","slug":"i-still-think-the-8th-district-is-cravaacks-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7379","title":{"rendered":"I still think the 8th District is Cravaack&#8217;s to lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;ll have about a million dollars to defend himself far more than his DFL challenger has in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>But a couple <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2012\/08\/democratic_poll.shtml\">partisan polls<\/a> say Rick Nolan has a razor thin edge on the GOP Congressman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A second poll, also of 405 likely voters from Aug. 21-23 and paid for by the Democratic Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of U.S. House Democrats, shows Nolan with 45 percent support compared to 44 percent for Cravaack&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW &#8211; If my eight loyal readers have wondered why I still have the comment about my Congressional Campaign website on my blog&#8217;s masthead its like this.<\/p>\n<p>1. I let the filing deadline slip by and forgot about the mention of the website.<\/p>\n<p>2. I hate messing around with the internal guts of my blog &#8211; sheer laziness.<\/p>\n<p>3. I thought there was a good chance that Cravaack might win this year which would give me another year to run against him. If he does win it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to let people know Cravaack had a 2014 challenger waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>PS. I&#8217;m also considering running for the Duluth School Board next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;ll have about a million dollars to defend himself far more than his DFL challenger has in the bank. But a couple partisan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}