{"id":3735,"date":"2013-01-22T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:16:49","slug":"safe-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Safe Seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-term elections are still a political eternity away, but early polling is looking good for <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/ppp-al-franken-in-comfortable-position-for-re\">Minnesota Senator Al Franken<\/a>. He leads Norm Coleman, who has already said he won&#8217;t challenge Franken for the seat, by a comfortable margin. A Franken-Bachmann matchup is even more lopsided. Franken can&#8217;t be considered a beloved political figure in Minnesota, but he may benefit from a weak Republican bench that can&#8217;t seem to field likeable or organized candidates. Pawlenty may be a possibility, but I doubt he&#8217;ll be interested in giving up a lucrative private sector gig for an opportunity to re-introduce himself to fickle Minnesota voters. Like Amy Klobuchar, Franken may be able to cruise to reelection with a big assist from an inept and talent-starved state GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-term elections are still a political eternity away, but early polling is looking good for Minnesota Senator Al Franken. He leads Norm Coleman, who has already said he won&#8217;t challenge Franken for the seat, by a comfortable margin. A Franken-Bachmann matchup is even more lopsided. Franken can&#8217;t be considered a beloved political figure in Minnesota, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3735' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}