{"id":13201,"date":"2012-05-30T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2012-05-30T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:05:25","slug":"post-primary-senate-race-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=13201","title":{"rendered":"Post-Primary Senate Race Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the full results on the <a href=\"http:\/\/enr.sos.state.tx.us\/enr\/results\/may29_160_state.htm?x=0&#038;y=736&#038;id=366\">Republican<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/enr.sos.state.tx.us\/enr\/results\/may29_161_state.htm?x=0&#038;y=12474&#038;id=282\">Democratic<\/a> sides.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some random post-primary race tidbits. I&#8217;ll probably have a separate post about the mysterious Grady Yarbrough coming up in a day or two.<\/p>\n<li>Last night was really two polls, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perryvsworld.com\/item\/1657\">Cruz is only 3% behind in the most recent one<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2012\/05\/30\/the-extraordinary-nature-of-the-texas-runoff\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">The extraordinary nature of the runoff.<\/a>\n<li>Cruz wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/texas-news\/Cruz-welcomes-debates-with-runoff-rival-Dewhurst-155785835.html\">five debates with Dewhurst<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/election\/2012\/05\/sadler-wants-in-on-debates\/\">Paul Sadler wants in on that action as well.<\/a> Whoa, dude. You better worry about slowing that  Grady Yarbrough juggernaut first&#8230;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/election\/2012\/05\/cruz-wins-says-freedomworks\/\">FreedomWorks is thrilled with Cruz&#8217;s showing.<\/a>\n<li>At the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/05\/30\/ted-cruz-forces-runoff-in-racially-tense-texas-senate-campaign\">this story<\/a>, you can vote on whether Dewhurst&#8217;s last-minute amnesty smear was racist or not. Over 83% are currently voting yes.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/texansforcraigjames.com\/news\/post\/Craig-James-Statement-on-Election-Results\">Craig James issues a gracious, classy concession statement.<\/a>\n<li>Speaking of James: Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/headlines\/20120328-tell-us-between-mike-leach-and-craig-james-who-gets-your-vote.ece\">this<\/a> isn&#8217;t very nice&#8230;\n<li>Even Paul Burka has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=13689\">has wised-up to fake Dewhurst internal polls<\/a>. &#8220;Well, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twenty times, shame on me. The Dewhurst campaign has made too many claims about why a Dewhurst victory was inevitable without backing them up. The only poll that matters is the one that will be taken on July 31.&#8221;\n<li>Speaking of polls, both PPP and UT\/TT polls were in the ballpark for the Republican race, but horribly off for the Democratic side. Any ideas why?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HubbardForSenate\">Sean Hubbard endorses Paul Sadler.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the full results on the Republican and Democratic sides. Here are some random post-primary race tidbits. I&#8217;ll probably have a separate post about the mysterious Grady Yarbrough coming up in a day or two. Last night was really two polls, and Cruz is only 3% behind in the most recent one. The extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,18,12],"tags":[928,1417,941,2864,2862,1506,1107,1433,90,1641,2865,1639,950,2861,945],"class_list":["post-13201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-craig-james","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-grady-yarbrough","tag-paul-burka","tag-paul-sadler","tag-polls","tag-primary","tag-republicans","tag-runoff","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13201"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13240,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions\/13240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}