{"id":664622,"date":"2010-02-15T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76604"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:11:08","slug":"how-can-democrats-replace-bayh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664622","title":{"rendered":"How Can Democrats Replace Bayh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s my understanding of how Indiana law works in a situation like the one Evan Bayh has created. Tuesday &#8212; tomorrow &#8212; is the last day that a candidate can start collecting signatures for a Senate race. By Friday, that candidate needs to have 500 valid signatures in all nine of Indiana&#8217;s congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>What if no one qualifies for the ballot? That lets the party with no candidate pick its nominee by June. That&#8217;s what Democrats would like to happen here. The wrinkle is that <a href=\"http:\/\/tamyraforsenate.com\/\">Tamyra d&#8217;Ippolito<\/a>, a first-time candidate, is already running, albeit reportedly having trouble with her last 1,000 signatures or so. If she qualifies for the race, Democrats would be forced to run a write-in campaign for the May 4 primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s my understanding of how Indiana law works in a situation like the one Evan Bayh has created. Tuesday &#8212; tomorrow &#8212; is the last day that a candidate can start collecting signatures for a Senate race. By Friday, that candidate needs to have 500 valid signatures in all nine of Indiana&#8217;s congressional districts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MTI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}