{"id":5357,"date":"2008-11-05T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2008-11-05T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:59:53","slug":"oregonian-calls-senate-race-for-merkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Oregonian calls Senate race for Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although 15% of votes are left to be counted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/special\/index.ssf\/2008\/11\/senate.html\">The Oregonian projects<\/a> that Democrat Jeff Merkley has won the Senate race against incumbent Republican Gordon Smith. Merkley is currently leading by a little over 5,000 votes. The votes remaining to be counted mostly come from Multnomah county (where I live), where voters are overwhelmingly liberal.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me happy, both for partisan reasons and because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/28\/does-senator-smith-believe-theyll-be-teaching-gay-sex-in-schools\/\">I just don&#8217;t like Smith<\/a>, who lent his name and image to homophobic mailers four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although 15% of votes are left to be counted, The Oregonian projects that Democrat Jeff Merkley has won the Senate race against incumbent Republican Gordon Smith. Merkley is currently leading by a little over 5,000 votes. The votes remaining to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}