{"id":21710,"date":"2014-10-23T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21710"},"modified":"2014-10-23T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:03:18","slug":"wisconsins-walker-in-tight-reelection-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21710\/wisconsins-walker-in-tight-reelection-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin’s Walker in Tight Reelection Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives who want a \u201creformer with results\u201d resume to run for President of the United States in 2016 should be praying that Scott Walker gets reelected this year. The Wisconsin Republican governor is in his third tough campaign for the state\u2019s top office in four years, having initially won the office in 2010 and then surviving a recall effort in 2012. If Walker wins again in November, expect to see him become the dark horse candidate to win the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n

But first Walker has to win reelection. And that\u2019s no guarantee.<\/p>\n

Robert Costa<\/a> of the Washington Post<\/em> has an interesting analysis of Walker\u2019s main problem this time around: Falling 150,000 jobs short of his 2010 pledge to create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin during his first term.<\/p>\n

For his part, Walker has blamed the state\u2019s union culture. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a jobs problem, we have a work problem,\u201d he said in a televised debate with his Democratic opponent. That may be true, but it\u2019s not sitting well with some voters.<\/p>\n

If Walker is defeated, conservatives will likely lose an important voice and option during the 2016 sweepstakes. It will also mean rollbacks of the union-busting laws he helped implement. Neither would be good. Hopefully, Walker can avoid both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservatives who want a \u201creformer with results\u201d resume to run for President of the United States in 2016 should be praying that Scott Walker gets reelected this year. The Wisconsin Republican governor is in his third tough campaign for the state\u2019s top office in four years, having initially won the office in 2010 and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,2412,1051,1500],"class_list":["post-21710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-scott-walker","tag-union","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21718,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}