{"id":3386,"date":"2005-01-18T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3386.html"},"modified":"2005-01-18T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T15:25:37","slug":"everyones-favorite-theocrat-has-strong-support-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/everyones-favorite-theocrat-has-strong-support-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s favorite theocrat has strong support in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the overwhelming majority of instances, sitting governors enjoy enough party support to stave off a primary challenge. In Alabama, however, a certain fundamentalist theocrat already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/NEWSV5\/storyV5onmooregov18.htm\">appears poised<\/a> to seize the GOP nomination away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new poll shows Roy Moore with a lead over Gov. Bob Riley in the race for the 2006 Republican gubernatorial nomination, a potential boost for the former chief justice should he decide to run for the office. <\/p>\n<p>A Mobile Register-University of South Alabama poll of likely Republican primary voters shows Moore with a lead of 8 percentage points over Riley in a hypothetical primary matchup. Moore drew support from 43 percent of respondents, while the governor garnered 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that Moore had a favorable rating of 72 percent &#8211; a number University of Alabama political scientist William Stewart described as potentially &#8220;intimidating to the governor.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that Gov. Riley will announce he&#8217;d like to &#8220;spend more time with his family&#8221; if Moore does jump into the race and the polls continue to show these kinds of results. On the other hand, maybe there&#8217;s a bright side to the poll results &#8212; about one in four Alabama Republicans don&#8217;t approve of Roy Moore. All things being equal, that&#8217;s better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Moore, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/003235.html\">already indicated<\/a> he&#8217;s considering the governor&#8217;s race, has to be considered the front-runner at this point. Be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the overwhelming majority of instances, sitting governors enjoy enough party support to stave off a primary challenge. In Alabama, however, a certain fundamentalist theocrat already appears poised to seize the GOP nomination away. A new poll shows Roy Moore with a lead over Gov. Bob Riley in the race for the 2006 Republican gubernatorial [&hellip;]<\/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-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}