{"id":15614,"date":"2014-11-04T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T02:02:25","slug":"david-perdue-takes-early-lead-in-georgias-u-s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=15614","title":{"rendered":"David Perdue takes early lead in Georgia&#8217;s U.S. Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/David-Perdue.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15635 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/David-Perdue-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"David-Perdue\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Republican candidate, David Perdue takes early lead in Georgia&#8217;s U.S. Senate Race carrying 60%,\u00a0298,586 votes, of the vote with only <span class=\"reporting-caption\">394<\/span> precincts reporting.<\/p>\n<p>As the first vote are counted, polls show Purdue ahead of democratic candidate Michelle Nunn and libertarian candidate Amanda Swafford.<\/p>\n<p>David Perdue is a successful business leader with 40 years of real world business experience who helped grow some of America\u2019s most recognizable companies including Sara Lee, Haggar, and Reebok.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia has emerged as a major battleground in the national fight for control of the Senate. The possibility of a runoff looms with polls still suggesting a tight race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican candidate, David Perdue takes early lead in Georgia&#8217;s U.S. Senate Race carrying 60%,\u00a0298,586 votes, of the vote with only 394 precincts reporting. As the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3570],"tags":[3710,3791,3790,1495,2948,3030],"class_list":["post-15614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-news","tag-2014-election","tag-david-perdue","tag-georgia","tag-tigermedianet","tag-u-s-senate","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15640,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}