{"id":2472,"date":"2010-08-11T02:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T06:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:47:07","slug":"looking-west-more-hints-of-democratic-struggles-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/11\/looking-west-more-hints-of-democratic-struggles-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking West, more hints of Democratic struggles in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primaries were held last night in several states and it was a mixed bag politically for Republicans and Democrats.\u00a0 Both parties saw some of their stronger candidates prevail &#8212; and also saw some upsets.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the big early take-away was a glimpse of the passion problem the Dems face this year.<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado&#8217;s fiercely contested primaries, nearly 390,000 voters turned out to vote for the GOP&#8217;s candidates, Ken Buck and Jane Norton.<\/p>\n<p>But on the Democratic side &#8212; despite a hot, fierce primary battle between Michael Bennett and Andrew Romanoff &#8212; only about 330,000 voters turned out.<\/p>\n<p>That 60,000-vote gap echoes polls and opinion surveys taken through the summer, suggesting that conservative voters are far more zealous about getting to the polls this year.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one quick snapshot.<\/p>\n<p>But my guess is that unless Democrats can energize their base, that kind of sluggishness will be tough to overcome in November.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s primaries come in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primaries were held last night in several states and it was a mixed bag politically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}