{"id":7152,"date":"2010-09-22T01:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2010-09-22T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:32:15","slug":"hate-to-say-we-told-you-so-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7152\/hate-to-say-we-told-you-so-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate to Say We Told You So (Not Really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7127\/pundits-cant-see-the-tea-party-forest-for-the-odonnell-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">we pointed out<\/a> how the nomination of Tea Party favorite Christine O&#8217;Donnell in Delaware isn&#8217;t enough to dash Republican hopes for a takeover of the Senate even if she goes down to defeat. The reason? The Senate races in Connecticut and West Virginia &#8212; under-reported by the mainstream media &#8212; are presenting unforeseen pickup opportunities for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few days later, Public Policy Polling <a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/close-race-in-west-virginia.html\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting<\/a> that Republican John Raese enjoys a three-point lead (46-43) over popular Democratic Governor Joe Manchin in West Virginia. Check out these truly astonishing results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manchin is the second most popular Governor PPP has polled on all year, behind only Bobby Jindal, with a 59\/32 approval spread. He breaks almost even with Republicans as 42% of them approve of the job he&#8217;s doing with just 44% disapproving. In a highly polarized political climate the list of politicians with that kind of crossover popularity is very short.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time West Virginians couldn&#8217;t be much more down on national Democrats. Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating in the state is just 30% with 64% of voters disapproving of him. Even within his own party barely half of voters, at 51%, like the job he&#8217;s doing. Support from Republicans (91% disapproval) and independents (73% disapproval) is pretty much nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>Given the President&#8217;s high degree of unpopularity it&#8217;s no surprise that 54% of voters in the state want Republicans to control the next Congress with just 37% wanting the Democrats to stay in charge. GOP voters (91-3) and independents (66-21) are pretty universal in their desire for a Republican majority and even 25% of Democrats say they&#8217;d like to see a change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, we pointed out how the nomination of Tea Party favorite Christine O&#8217;Donnell in Delaware isn&#8217;t enough to dash Republican hopes for a takeover of the Senate even if she goes down to defeat. The reason? The Senate races in Connecticut and West Virginia &#8212; under-reported by the mainstream media &#8212; are presenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}