{"id":4056,"date":"2005-04-26T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4056.html"},"modified":"2005-04-26T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:00:43","slug":"maybe-we-could-temporarily-suspend-the-22nd-amendment-for-just-one-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-we-could-temporarily-suspend-the-22nd-amendment-for-just-one-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe we could temporarily suspend the 22nd Amendment for just one cycle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s E. J. Dionne Jr. had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/04\/25\/AR2005042501354.html\">a fine column<\/a> today about moderates and self-identified independents abandoning the GOP, using the latest Democracy Corps poll for data, but there was one tidbit that jumped out at me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]n an amusing but revealing question, the pollsters asked how Americans would vote in a contest between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush if the Constitution were changed to allow them to run in 2008. Clinton beat Bush, 53 percent to 43 percent &#8212; a rather decisive judgment on our two most recent political legacies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go ahead, try and deny how much you&#8217;d love to watch that race. I dare you. If they put the debates on pay-per-view, it&#8217;d be worth millions.<\/p>\n<p>And as long as we&#8217;re dealing with an imaginary campaign, I say Clinton would pick up Florida, Ohio, a few southern states (Arkansas, Tennessee), and a couple of western states (Nevada, Colorado) to win this one in a walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s E. J. Dionne Jr. had a fine column today about moderates and self-identified independents abandoning the GOP, using the latest Democracy Corps poll for data, but there was one tidbit that jumped out at me. [I]n an amusing but revealing question, the pollsters asked how Americans would vote in a contest between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}