{"id":10,"date":"2008-02-29T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-02-16T18:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T23:48:45","slug":"republicans-too-straightforward-be-savvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/republicans-too-straightforward-be-savvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans — Too Straightforward to be Savvy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal (http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/02\/29\/political-perceptions-release-the-secret-weapon-obamacans\/<\/a>) reported that crossover Republican voters may skew next week’s Democratic primary in favor of Senator Barack Obama:<\/p>\n

Some … genuinely like Obama; some dislike Sen. Hillary Clinton so much they\u2019ll vote for another Democrat next Tuesday just to stop her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIt’s unclear if those Republicans would follow-up with votes for Senator Obama in the November general election. We suspect that, even if Senator Obama tracks back toward the political center as the campaign progresses, they may find an imperfect Republican candidate preferable to a Democrat. But if Senator Clinton, who is a much more divisive figure than Senator Obama, would be the easier Democrat to defeat in November, won’t these primary-season “Obamacans” be making it harder for the Republican ticket to prevail?<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal (http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/02\/29\/political-perceptions-release-the-secret-weapon-obamacans\/) reported that crossover Republican voters may skew next week’s Democratic primary in favor of Senator Barack Obama: Some … genuinely like Obama; some dislike Sen. Hillary Clinton so much they\u2019ll vote for another Democrat next Tuesday just to stop her. It’s unclear if those Republicans \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[88,71],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-left-wing","tag-right-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}