{"id":6910,"date":"2010-09-03T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2010-09-03T19:22:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:22:59","slug":"tough-primary-fights-for-democrats-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6910\/tough-primary-fights-for-democrats-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Primary Fights For Democrats Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/03\/tea-party-activists-prote_n_704854.html\" target=\"_blank\">home state protests against Senator John Cornyn<\/a> (R-TX) who, as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), continues to back losing candidates against Tea Party opposition comes a similar bit of news from Florida.\u00a0 The minority leader of the Sunshine State\u2019s state senate, Al Lawson, just endorsed Governor Charlie Crist (I-FL) for U.S. Senator.\u00a0 As an African-American and Democratic leader in the Florida Senate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/03\/al-lawson-top-democrat-in_n_705313.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lawson\u2019s support is a blow to Rep. Kendrick Meek<\/a> (D-FL), the Democrats\u2019 African-American Senate candidates.<\/p>\n<p>But Lawson\u2019s endorsement of Crist is apparently motivated by the Democratic establishment\u2019s successful moves to defeat his recent primary challenge to Rep. Alan Boyd (D-FL).\u00a0 That includes strong-arm tactics by President Barack Obama\u2019s Organizing for America campaign operation.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Tea Party insurgents Joe Miller in Alaska, Rand Paul in Kentucky and Sharron Angle in Nevada, Lawson couldn\u2019t overcome his party\u2019s establishment.\u00a0 Cornyn\u2019s saving grace is that he still has time to make up with the grassroots voters before November.\u00a0 Unless Obama &amp; Co. can find a way to unify their base in the next two months, chances are people like Al Lawson will stay home on Election Day; making GOP control of both houses of Congress that much more likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off home state protests against Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) who, as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), continues to back losing candidates against Tea Party opposition comes a similar bit of news from Florida.\u00a0 The minority leader of the Sunshine State\u2019s state senate, Al Lawson, just endorsed Governor Charlie Crist (I-FL) for [&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":[782,1794,143,1193,353,354,1765,435,901,713,669,1582],"class_list":["post-6910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-al-lawson","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-charlie-crist","tag-florida","tag-joe-miller","tag-john-cornyn","tag-kendrick-meek","tag-nrsc","tag-rand-paul","tag-sharron-angle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910","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=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}