{"id":2998,"date":"2010-01-06T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2010-01-06T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:06:48","slug":"democrats-flee-sinking-ship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2998\/democrats-flee-sinking-ship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Flee Sinking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been awash in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31186.html\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic retirements<\/a>.\u00a0 In just two days, senior Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have announced that they won\u2019t be facing voters this November.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Governor Bill Ritter (D-CO) announced his retirement after just one term in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>All three politicians had uphill reelection prospects and polls now show Republicans with a 44% to 35% advantage in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/generic_congressional_ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Generic Congressional Ballot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For taxpayers and free trade advocates, Dorgan\u2019s retirement comes as a welcome surprise.\u00a0  He was one of the loudest and most obnoxious free trade opponents in the Senate and even authored the book \u201cTake this Job and Ship It,\u201d a screed against free trade and competition.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the book&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> sales rank is a lowly 143,535, so few will miss his writing or his voting record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been awash in Democratic retirements.\u00a0 In just two days, senior Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have announced that they won\u2019t be facing voters this November. In addition, Governor Bill Ritter (D-CO) announced his retirement after just one term in Denver. All three politicians had uphill reelection prospects and polls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[695,694,693,506,505],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bill-ritter","tag-byron-dorgan","tag-chris-dodd","tag-democrats","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}