{"id":12597,"date":"2010-09-28T02:28:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:28:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-28T02:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:28:03","slug":"2010-essential-races-who-would-you-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/2010-essential-races-who-would-you-support\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Essential Races &#8211; Who Would You Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/node\/2072\">www.DLCC.org<\/a>]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s try something different:&nbsp; Which legislative races do you care  about?<\/p>\n<p>Out of over 6,000 state legislative districts up for grabs this  year, we&#39;ve chosen 40 key races to highlight on our 2010 &#8220;Essential Races&#8221;  list.&nbsp; These are 40 critical races that we anticipate will show which way the  political tide is turning this fall.<\/p>\n<p>But we recognize our own  limitations. There are plenty of other key   races all across the country  &#8212; so we&#39;re asking for your help in   identifying them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/2010Races\"><strong>For   the next few weeks,  we&#39;ll be accepting nominations from the public for  10  additional state  legislative races to be added to our 2010 &#8220;Essential  Races&#8221;  list.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone can submit a nomination.&nbsp; Any campaign for  state  legislature in 2010 is eligible.  <\/p>\n<p>It only takes a few clicks, and it could potentially make a huge  difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/2010Races\"><strong>Click   here to nominate an Essential Race today!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2008, the Essential Races chosen through public nominations  included  a lot of campaigns in battleground states, but they also included a few  campaigns in states that weren&#39;t top targets, but where something about  the  district or the Democratic nominee made the race unique and deserving of  special  attention.<\/p>\n<p>We might have overlooked some of those key races without your help,  and we&#39;d  be foolish not to ask for it again this year.<\/p>\n<p>So who should we add to the list, and why?<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/2010Races\"><strong>www.dlcc.org\/2010Races<\/strong><\/a>   to nominate an Essential Race today!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sargeant<br \/>Executive Director<br \/>The  Democratic  Legislative Campaign Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>[cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/node\/2072\">www.DLCC.org<\/a>]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s try something different:&nbsp; Which legislative races do you care  about?<\/p>\n<p>Out of over 6,000 state legislative districts up for grabs this  year, we&#39;ve chosen 40 key races to highlight on our 2010 &#8220;Essential Races&#8221;  list.&nbsp; These are 40 critical races that we anticipate will show which way the  political tide is turning this fall.<\/p>\n<p>But we recognize our own  limitations. There are plenty of other key   races all across the country  &#8212; so we&#39;re asking for your help in   identifying them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlcc.org\/2010Races\"><strong>For   the next few weeks,  we&#39;ll be accepting nominations from the public for  10  additional state  legislative races to be added to our 2010 &#8220;Essential  Races&#8221;  list.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5140,"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":[1990],"tags":[609,1563],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990","tag-609","tag-1563"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","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\/5140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}