{"id":11488,"date":"2010-04-08T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-08T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:28:16","slug":"40-days-until-sestakspecter-and-halterlincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/40-days-until-sestakspecter-and-halterlincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Days Until Sestak-Specter and Halter-Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{<i>First, a cheap plug for my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senateguru.com\/\">Senate Guru<\/a>.<\/i>}<\/p>\n<p>40 days from today &#8211; on May 18 &#8211; we will see two HUGE primaries for U.S. Senate. &nbsp;Even though these races aren&#8217;t in California, they impact Democrats across the country and, well, the entire country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, Democratic Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesestak.com\/\">Joe Sestak<\/a> will try to upset Republican-for-decades Arlen Specter.<\/p>\n<p>In Arkansas, Democratic Lieutenant Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/\">Bill Halter<\/a> will try to upset corporate lackey Blanche Lincoln.<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td>These two races are tremendously important to defining who and what the Democratic Party is and what we will be fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>If you can volunteer for these candidates (or encourage friends and family in Pennsylvania and Arkansas to do so), that would be amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you can help with a contribution to either or both via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">the Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a> as soon as possible, it will make a big impact.<\/td>\n<td>\n<table border=1 cellpadding=5 width=250>\n<tr>\n<td COLSPAN=2><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><a href=\"http:\/\/joesestak.com\/\">Joe Sestak<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sestak2010\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sestak2010\">Twitter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/joesestak.com\/Volunteer.html\">Volunteer Page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/\">Bill Halter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Halter-for-Arkansas\/275740104048\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billhalter\">Twitter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/volunteer\">Volunteer Page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td COLSPAN=2><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Polling shows that both Specter and Lincoln are at risk of &#8211; if not likely to &#8211; hand these Senate seats over to far-right-wing Republicans. (And, even if these two retain the seats, that&#8217;s not much better on many key issues.)<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Sestak and Lieutenant Governor Halter winning these primaries are critical to keeping these seats in truly Democratic hands. Your support can help make that happen! &nbsp;Please hop over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">the Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a> right away to make a contribution &#8211; an investment in the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party to pull out an old expression &#8211; and show your support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks SO much for any support you can provide. 40 Days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{<i>First, a cheap plug for my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senateguru.com\/\">Senate Guru<\/a>.<\/i>}<\/p>\n<p>40 days from today &#8211; on May 18 &#8211; we will see two HUGE primaries for U.S. Senate. &nbsp;Even though these races aren&#8217;t in California, they impact Democrats across the country and, well, the entire country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, Democratic Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesestak.com\/\">Joe Sestak<\/a> will try to upset Republican-for-decades Arlen Specter.<\/p>\n<p>In Arkansas, Democratic Lieutenant Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/\">Bill Halter<\/a> will try to upset corporate lackey Blanche Lincoln.<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td>These two races are tremendously important to defining who and what the Democratic Party is and what we will be fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>If you can volunteer for these candidates (or encourage friends and family in Pennsylvania and Arkansas to do so), that would be amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you can help with a contribution to either or both via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">the Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a> as soon as possible, it will make a big impact.<\/td>\n<td>\n<table border=1 cellpadding=5 width=250>\n<tr>\n<td COLSPAN=2><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><a href=\"http:\/\/joesestak.com\/\">Joe Sestak<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sestak2010\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sestak2010\">Twitter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/joesestak.com\/Volunteer.html\">Volunteer Page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/\">Bill Halter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Halter-for-Arkansas\/275740104048\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billhalter\">Twitter<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhalter.com\/volunteer\">Volunteer Page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td COLSPAN=2><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Polling shows that both Specter and Lincoln are at risk of &#8211; if not likely to &#8211; hand these Senate seats over to far-right-wing Republicans. (And, even if these two retain the seats, that&#8217;s not much better on many key issues.)<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Sestak and Lieutenant Governor Halter winning these primaries are critical to keeping these seats in truly Democratic hands. Your support can help make that happen! &nbsp;Please hop over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/senateguru\">the Expand the Map! ActBlue page<\/a> right away to make a contribution &#8211; an investment in the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party to pull out an old expression &#8211; and show your support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks SO much for any support you can provide. 40 Days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[268,8587,4075,8589,8671,221,121,7246,554,7245,1080,548],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-268","tag-8587","tag-4075","tag-8589","tag-8671","tag-221","tag-121","tag-7246","tag-554","tag-7245","tag-1080","tag-548"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}