{"id":14459,"date":"2010-11-03T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14459"},"modified":"2010-11-03T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:12:01","slug":"no-jets-in-congress-this-term-seals-cornilles-both-lose-in-close-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/no-jets-in-congress-this-term-seals-cornilles-both-lose-in-close-races\/","title":{"rendered":"No JETs in Congress this term &#8211; Seals, Cornilles both lose in close races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JET alumni <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansealsforcongress.com\/\"><strong>Dan Seals<\/strong><\/a> (Democrat-Illinois) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornillesforcongress.com\/\"><strong>Rob Cornilles<\/strong><\/a> (Republican-Oregon) both lost their bids for a Congressional seat.\u00a0 Had either of them won, they would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/jet-alums-vie-for-congressional-seats-in-tuesdays-election\/\">the first JET alums in the U.S. Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Illinois&#8217; 10th district, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/elections\/2860622,dold-seals-10th-congress-110310.article\"><strong>Robert Dold<\/strong> defeated Seals by a 51% to 49% margin<\/a>, winning 103,274 votes to Seals&#8217; 98,882 votes.\u00a0 And in Oregon&#8217;s 1st district, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2010\/11\/oregon_election_results_us_hou_4.html\">incumbent Democrat <strong>David Wu<\/strong> won a seventh term in Congress<\/a> with 54% of the vote to Cornilles&#8217; 42%.<\/p>\n<p><em>Isshokenmei ganbarimashita.\u00a0 Minnasan o-tsukare sama deshita.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JET alumni Dan Seals (Democrat-Illinois) and Rob Cornilles (Republican-Oregon) both lost their bids for a Congressional seat.\u00a0 Had either of them won, they would have been the first JET alums in the U.S. Congress. In Illinois&#8217; 10th district, Robert Dold defeated Seals by a 51% to 49% margin, winning 103,274 votes to Seals&#8217; 98,882 votes.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable-jet-alums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14461,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions\/14461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}