{"id":17404,"date":"2012-12-04T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17404"},"modified":"2012-12-04T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:47:27","slug":"republicans-not-handling-election-results-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17404","title":{"rendered":"Republicans not handling election results well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2012\/12\/republicans-not-handling-election-results-well.html'>Public Policy Polling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I often think it would be hard for me to be even <i>more<\/i> cynical about our species, but I think working in public polling could get me there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 39% of Americans with an opinion about Bowles\/Simpson is only slightly higher than the 25% with one about Panetta\/Burns, a mythical Clinton Chief of Staff\/former western Republican Senator combo we conceived of to test how many people would say they had an opinion even about something that doesn't exist. <\/p>\n<p>Bowles\/Simpson does have bipartisan support from the small swath of Americans with an opinion about it. Republicans support it 26\/18, Democrats favor it 21\/14, and independents are for it by a 24\/18 margin. Panetta\/Burns doesn't fare as well with 8% support and 17% opposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Odds are good that approximately nobody, not the politicians talking about it, not the pundits talking about it, not the public talking about it knows what's actually in the Bowles\/Simpson plan. Certainly what the B\/S plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2012\/12\/04\/11-shocking-true-facts-about-simpson-bowles\/\">actually recommends<\/a> is light years from what John Boehner is going to be able to convince his \"conservative\" caucus to support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/12\/fox-news-effect-republicans-still-think-acorn-alive-and-stealing-elections#disqus_thread\">href<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Policy Polling: 49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore. Beautiful. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}