

{"id":14920,"date":"2016-04-12T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2016-04-12T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:11:35","slug":"connecticut-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14920","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls arrived today for Connecticut.  Once again Trump or Cruz will lose to either Hillary or Bernie.   Kasich will beat either Democrat in November.<\/p>\n<p>While Connecticut is a relatively small state, it was one in the &#8220;could go either way&#8221; pile &#8211; Obama got only 58% in 2012, less than the 60% &#8220;safe&#8221; cutoff.  The margins in the polls are well beyond the Margin of Error.  Unless something changes, Connecticut goes Democratic unless Kasich is the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That pushes Bernie Sanders over the finish line<\/strong> winning the electoral &#8220;college&#8221; vote &#8211; if the Republicans nominate Trump; and inches away from Hillary being over the finish line.  Of course, the Democrats are unlikely to nominate Sanders.  I can&#8217;t imagine the billionaires that own the Democratic Party accepting hippy wife Jane Sanders as the First Lady.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the Democrats appear weak vs Kasich in part because pollsters stopped polling X vs Kasich.   Without a poll, the estimate follows safe\/not safe.   Democrats probabky would win vs Kasich in some of the toss up states that currently lack a poll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls arrived today for Connecticut. Once again Trump or Cruz will lose to either Hillary or Bernie. Kasich will beat either Democrat in November. While Connecticut is a relatively small state, it was one in the &#8220;could go either way&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-bernie-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}