{"id":9589,"date":"2010-03-24T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2010-03-24T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:51:38","slug":"trouble-with-a-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9589","title":{"rendered":"Trouble with a Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of\u00a0 Quinnipiac polls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The health care deform bill has already lit up the tea partiers&#8230;which could be good&#8230;or could be bad for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>It depends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;on how (truly) conservative the GOP wants to be next time around.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/03\/24\/tea-party-candidates-could-play-spoiler-role-says-poll\/?fbid=6X7uK79pF5e\">Americans say they&#8217;ll vote for a Republican over a Democrat<\/a> in the  November elections by a 44 to 39 percent margin.<\/p>\n<p>But the addition of a Tea Party candidate to the ballot changes the  dynamic: The Republican candidate drops dramatically to 25 percent and  the Democrat only slightly to 36 percent, while 15 percent would back  the Tea Party candidate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It strains the imagination to think that there are still 36-39 percent left that would still vote for a Democrat yet at the same time this data shows it&#8217;s the GOP&#8217;s race to lose and a right <em>leaning <\/em>candidate won&#8217;t fly (again).<\/p>\n<p>In light of this data, loyal readers, who do you think is our (Wo)Man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of\u00a0 Quinnipiac polls&#8230; The health care deform bill has already lit up the tea partiers&#8230;which could be good&#8230;or could be bad for the GOP. It depends. &#8230;on how (truly) conservative the GOP wants to be next time around. Americans say they&#8217;ll vote for a Republican over a Democrat in the November elections by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,56,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}