{"id":14446,"date":"2010-11-01T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14446"},"modified":"2010-11-01T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:39:21","slug":"jet-alums-vie-for-congressional-seats-in-tuesdays-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/jet-alums-vie-for-congressional-seats-in-tuesdays-election\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alums vie for Congressional seats in Tuesday&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tuesday night, we should know whether the U.S. Congress will have its first JET alum member.\u00a0 Or possibly even member<em>s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansealsforcongress.com\/\"><strong>Dan Seals<\/strong><\/a> is running as a Democrat in Illinois&#8217; 10th district for the seat vacated by <strong>Mark Kirk<\/strong> (who is running for the Senate seat vacated by <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>).\u00a0 And Seals led\u00a0 Republican nominee <strong>Robert Dold<\/strong> by as much as 12 points according to a poll in early October.\u00a0 Though now the race is considered very tight.\u00a0 This is Seals&#8217; third time running for the seat, which he narrowly lost last year to Mark Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornillesforcongress.com\/\"><strong>Rob Cornilles<\/strong><\/a> is running on the Republican ticket in Oregon&#8217;s 1st district against Democratic incumbent <strong>David Wu<\/strong>.\u00a0 There the race is also tight, though Wu as the incumbent is apparently considered to have a slight advantage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ganbatte!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***********<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"453\" height=\"276\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CMbrvnNviGg&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**********<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"452\" height=\"272\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vmJpXxRtJVI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tuesday night, we should know whether the U.S. Congress will have its first JET alum member.\u00a0 Or possibly even members. 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