{"id":794,"date":"2003-10-27T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/794.html"},"modified":"2003-10-27T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T16:05:06","slug":"discouraging-poll-results-out-of-kentucky-and-mississippi-but-hope-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/discouraging-poll-results-out-of-kentucky-and-mississippi-but-hope-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Discouraging poll results out of Kentucky and Mississippi, but hope in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week from tomorrow, two statewide elections will determine the governors of Kentucky and Mississippi. Unfortunately, polls released over the weekend show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22134-2003Oct27.html\">likely GOP victories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Kentucky, an Ipsos-Public Affairs poll shows Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R) with a nine-point lead over state Attorney General Ben Chandler (D), 52 percent to 43 percent. This is a slightly larger lead for Fletcher than similar polls conducted over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>In Mississippi, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/news\/0310\/26\/m01.html\">Clarion-Ledger\/AP poll<\/a> showed a closer race, with former national GOP chairman Haley Barbour leading incumbent Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D), 50 percent to 45 percent. Unfortunately, no one&#8217;s sure how this race is trending, since it&#8217;s the only statewide poll published on the race. (I know it&#8217;s Mississippi, pollsters, but couldn&#8217;t you guys do a few more polls in the state?)<\/p>\n<p>There is another statewide race next month, in Louisiana, but the election isn&#8217;t until Nov. 15. Polls there are slightly more encouraging for the Dem, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/elections\/t-p\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/106697684350470.xml\">a poll released late last week<\/a> showed Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco leading Republican former state Health Secretary Bobby Jindal, 42.7 percent to Jindal&#8217;s 40.5 percent. Considering that the poll&#8217;s margin of error was +\/- 4 percent, the race can go either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week from tomorrow, two statewide elections will determine the governors of Kentucky and Mississippi. Unfortunately, polls released over the weekend show likely GOP victories. In Kentucky, an Ipsos-Public Affairs poll shows Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R) with a nine-point lead over state Attorney General Ben Chandler (D), 52 percent to 43 percent. This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}