{"id":5007,"date":"2010-04-28T18:53:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2010-04-28T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T23:59:37","slug":"pennsylvania-special-election-could-be-harbinger-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5007\/pennsylvania-special-election-could-be-harbinger-for-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Special Election Could be Harbinger for November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18<sup>th<\/sup>, voters in Pennsylvania\u2019s 12<sup>th<\/sup> congressional district will select someone other than the late John Murtha to represent them in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 According to Newt Gingrich, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=36731 \" target=\"_blank\">it should be Republican businessman Tim Burns<\/a>.\u00a0 Burns and his Democratic opponent Mark Critz are subjects in a profile I wrote for CFIF <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/590-crony-capitalism-looms-large-over-pennsylvania-special-election-to-replace-john-murtha\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Though I discuss a different aspect of the campaign than Gingrich, I agree with his analysis that a center-left Democrat like Critz will find it nearly impossible to balance the need for far Left campaign cash with his district\u2019s moderate-to-conservative leanings.\u00a0 This will be a very bad year for Blue Dog Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18th, voters in Pennsylvania\u2019s 12th congressional district will select someone other than the late John Murtha to represent them in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 According to Newt Gingrich, it should be Republican businessman Tim Burns.\u00a0 Burns and his Democratic opponent Mark Critz are subjects in a profile I wrote for CFIF here.\u00a0 Though I discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,1190,1189,869,1085,1191,1188],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-john-murtha","tag-mark-critz","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-pennsylvania","tag-special-election","tag-tim-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}