{"id":7316,"date":"2012-03-06T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T08:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2012-03-06T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T08:01:16","slug":"open-thread362012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/open-thread362012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/6\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was able to get in a good nap after my appointment, so I\u2019m able to blog now.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I have a two week pile of mail to sort.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:00 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>Ten senators — seven Democrats and three Republicans –say they won’t face voters again in November, the largest number of elected senators eschewing re-election since 13 decided to forgo new terms in 1996.<\/p>\n

It could not please me more that one of them is Benedict Nelson (DINO-NE).<\/font><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Republican presidential Rick Santorum is advising President Barack Obama not to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans because \u201chigher-income people don\u2019t have to pay taxes if they don\u2019t want to<\/strong>.\u201d [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Santorum actually stated the Republican position precisely.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Political Wire<\/a>: <\/font>Final Super Tuesday Polls<\/p>\n

Ohio<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Quinnipiac<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Romney 34%, Santorum 31%, Gingrich 15%, Paul at 12%. <\/font><\/p>\n

American Research Group<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Romney 35%, Santorum 28%, Gingrich 18%, Paul 13%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rasmussen<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Santorum 32%, Romney 31%, Gingrich 13%, Paul 13%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Merriman<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Romney 38%, Santorum 33%, Gingrich 18%, Paul 8%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Suffolk<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Santorum 37%, Romney 33%, Gingrich 16%, Paul 8%.<\/font><\/p>\n

CNN\/Opinion Research<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Romney 32%, Santorum 32%, Gingrich 14%, Paul 11%<\/font><\/p>\n

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Georgia<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Mason-Dixon<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Gingrich 38%, Romney 24%, Santorum 22%, Paul 3%.<\/font><\/p>\n

American Research Group<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Gingrich 44%, Romney 24%, Santorum 19%, Paul 9%.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Tennessee<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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We Ask America<\/a><\/font><\/font>: Romney 30%, Santorum 29%, Gingrich 29%, Paul 12%<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It looks good for Rmoney, especially due to the terrible Republican screw-up in VA.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yesterday I was able to get in a good nap after my appointment, so I\u2019m able to blog now.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I have a two week pile of mail to sort. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:00 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}