{"id":701,"date":"2006-10-15T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=701"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:12:14","slug":"minnesota-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long time, but every so often, there&#8217;s a glimmer of hope on the political landscape, and we saw it today on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in the debate between Minnesota Senatorial candidates Amy Klobuchar (D) and Rep. Mark Kennedy (R).<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m a Libertarian forced to register as an Independent, so profess no great love for either major party.<br \/>\nStill, it gave me visceral pleasure to see a smart woman candidate &#8211; who is leading by over 20 points in the polls &#8211; clean a nasty little man&#8217;s clock.  And to watch Russert make Mark Kennedy squirm over his insistent questions about whether or not Kennedy (who has voted with Bush over 90% of the time) represents himself in this race as a Bush supporter:  priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long time, but every so often, there&#8217;s a glimmer of hope on the political landscape, and we saw it today on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in the debate between Minnesota Senatorial candidates Amy Klobuchar (D) and Rep. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}