{"id":10461,"date":"2018-05-10T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:00:08","slug":"washington-post-endorsements-should-be-coming-out-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10461","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Endorsements Should be Coming Out Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most influential endorsements have been made in our state and local races but one big one still has to drop: the Washington Post.\u00a0 In contested races for Executive and County Council over the last three cycles, the Post has gone 18-7 \u2013 a 72% win rate.\u00a0 Its misses included Howie Denis (Council D1, 2006), Mike Subin and Bo Newsome (Council At-Large, 2006), Royce Hanson (Council District 2, 2010), Duchy Trachtenberg (Council At-Large, 2010), Tom Moore (Council District 3, 2014) and Evan Glass (Council District 5, 2014).\u00a0 Other than maybe Newsome, all of these were credible candidates and three (Denis, Subin and Trachtenberg) were incumbents.\u00a0 In 2014, the first mid-term year in which Maryland had a June primary, the Post endorsed for Executive on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/endorsement-isiah-leggett-for-montgomery-county-executive\/2014\/05\/02\/77ffad32-d219-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html?utm_term=.1598ce8b620b\">May 2<\/a>, for County Council on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/democratic-endorsements-for-the-montgomery-county-council\/2014\/05\/26\/97eec796-e410-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html?utm_term=.a4014e647de4\">May 26<\/a> and for General Assembly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/endorsements-for-maryland-house-and-senate-primary-elections\/2014\/05\/30\/77f7303e-e76e-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html?utm_term=.29c472808563\">May 30<\/a>.\u00a0 Candidates are eager for the Post to endorse sooner rather than later because they would like to add the endorsement to their yard signs, mail and walk lit.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the Post has been interviewing Executive and County Council candidates.\u00a0 We would not be surprised if their endorsement for Executive comes out in a matter of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Most influential endorsements have been made in our state and local races but one big one still has to drop: the Washington Post.\u00a0 In contested races for Executive and County Council over the last three cycles, the Post has gone 18-7 \u2013 a 72% win rate.\u00a0 Its misses included Howie Denis (Council &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington Post Endorsements Should be Coming Out Soon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[151,185],"tags":[1545,937],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-washington-post","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-washington-post-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2IJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10462,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}