{"id":7500,"date":"2010-10-26T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2010-10-26T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T23:29:24","slug":"poll-numbers-continue-to-show-massive-pick-up-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7500\/poll-numbers-continue-to-show-massive-pick-up-for-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Numbers Continue to Show Massive Pick-Up for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Cost at <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em> makes a compelling case that one of the reasons a Republican victory next Tuesday may seem ho-hum is that its arrival has been trumpeted for so long.\u00a0 After months of voter resentment over ObamaCare, the Recovery Act, and spiraling unemployment the notion that the GOP might surpass 1994\u2019s gains can seem pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Cost reminds us it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 In fact, the intensity and location of voter resentment towards the liberal status quo could portend a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/morning-jay-special-bruce-banner-versus-incredible-hulk-edition_511945.html?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">possible realignment in states President Barack Obama won<\/a> in 2008 to the GOP column.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The circumstantial evidence in favor of this?\u00a0As Jim Geraghty\u2019s Obi Wan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/250865\/special-monday-obi-wan-kenobi-update\">noted<\/a> yesterday, it\u2019s all around us.\u00a0 We simply have gotten used to it.\u00a0Ohio is all but gone for the Democrats, including the swingiest of swing districts in Columbus.\u00a0 Michigan is a lost cause.\u00a0So is liberal icon Russ Feingold in Wisconsin.\u00a0 Pennsylvania looks like it will go maybe +4-6 for Toomey and Corbett.\u00a0All of these places voted for Obama, and all of them are <em>basically<\/em> <em>gone. <\/em>Weak Republican candidates in Colorado and Nevada keep those races tight, but otherwise the toss-ups are: California, Illinois, West Virginia, and Washington.\u00a0The last Republican presidential candidate to win all four of these?\u00a0Ronald Reagan in 1984.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoever earns the GOP presidential nomination for 2012 will have the wind at their back and a groundswell of proven precinct walkers at the ready.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see if the candidate can figure out how to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Cost at The Weekly Standard makes a compelling case that one of the reasons a Republican victory next Tuesday may seem ho-hum is that its arrival has been trumpeted for so long.\u00a0 After months of voter resentment over ObamaCare, the Recovery Act, and spiraling unemployment the notion that the GOP might surpass 1994\u2019s gains [&hellip;]<\/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":[782,914,143,676,35,31,1674,1499,18],"class_list":["post-7500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-jay-cost","tag-obamacare","tag-pat-toomey","tag-recovery-act","tag-russ-feingold","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500","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=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}