{"id":1251,"date":"2004-02-13T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1251.html"},"modified":"2004-02-13T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:02:23","slug":"kerrys-looking-very-strong-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kerrys-looking-very-strong-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s looking very strong in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

No wonder Dean backed out of his do-or-die pledge for Wisconsin. Kerry’s running away with the state.<\/p>\n

An American Research Group poll<\/a> released last night shows Kerry with a commanding lead.<\/p>\n

Kerry — 53%
\nEdwards — 16%
\nDean — 11%<\/p>\n

And this was before Wesley Clark announced his endorsement of Kerry in Wisconsin, which may help boost Kerry’s numbers even higher.<\/p>\n

The surprising numbers are seen in favorability ratings. Wisconsin Dems like Kerry and hate Dean.<\/p>\n

ARG pegged Kerry’s favorability rating at 65%, up 12 points from just a week ago. Even though more Wisconsin Dems are aware of Dean, the former Vermont governor’s favorability rating is 19%, down a point from a week ago.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, these are Democrats<\/i>. This means that fewer than one-in-five Dems in the state, regardless of who they’re planning to vote for, have a favorable opinion of Dean. <\/p>\n

It’s even more remarkable when one considers the fact that Dean has been furiously campaigning in Wisconsin for over a week and has been airing as many campaign ads on TV as humanly possible.<\/p>\n

It’s not working. They just don’t like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No wonder Dean backed out of his do-or-die pledge for Wisconsin. Kerry’s running away with the state. An American Research Group poll released last night shows Kerry with a commanding lead. Kerry — 53% Edwards — 16% Dean — 11% And this was before Wesley Clark announced his endorsement of Kerry in Wisconsin, which may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}