{"id":43141,"date":"2025-11-10T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:31:20","slug":"just-a-teensy-bit-nervous-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/11\/10\/just-a-teensy-bit-nervous-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Teensy Bit Nervous, Are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being behind on my reading does make it easier to report follow-up observations. For example, last week’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey, not a special election but a regularly scheduled election, elicited this statement<\/a> from Steve Benen:<\/p>\n

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* In the final round of polling in New Jersey\u2019s gubernatorial race, Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill narrowly leads former Republican Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli in the latest\u00a0Suffolk University poll<\/a>\u00a0(46%-42%),\u00a0Quinnipiac University poll<\/a>\u00a0(51%-43%) and\u00a0Fox News poll<\/a> (52%-45%).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A real nail-biter, eh? “Narrowly leads” hardly sounds like it. Drum roll, please:<\/p>\n

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Source: Ballotpedia<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

A 13 point victory is not a nail biter. I have no special links to pollsters, so I don’t know the internal chatter, but they have to be discussing these results with some intensity, especially Suffolk University<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being behind on my reading does make it easier to report follow-up observations. For example, last week’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey, not a special election but a regularly scheduled election, elicited this statement from Steve Benen: * In the final round of polling in New Jersey\u2019s gubernatorial race, Democratic \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43144,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions\/43144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}