{"id":2888,"date":"2004-10-17T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T01:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/17\/top-gop-pollster-says-bush-is-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:40:39","slug":"top-gop-pollster-says-bush-is-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/17\/top-gop-pollster-says-bush-is-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP pollster says Bush is in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10026,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.disinfopedia.org\\\/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Luntz&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20151006172259\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.disinfopedia.org\\\/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Luntz&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:05:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:05:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10027,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.indiadaily.com\\\/editorial\\\/10-15b-04.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10028,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.electoral-vote.com\\\/oct\\\/oct16.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/electoral-vote.com\\\/oct\\\/oct16.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6394,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfopedia.org\/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Luntz\" title=\"Frank Luntz\">Frank Luntz<\/a>, one of the country&#8217;s top Republican pollsters, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadaily.com\/editorial\/10-15b-04.asp\" title=\"It's time for Bush to get worried\">saying that Bush is in serious trouble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If John Kerry is elected the 44th president, it will be because of a single night in Miami, Florida, when he came to debate and Mr.\u00a0Bush came to &#8211; well, no one is quite sure. The double-digit lead that Gallup polls, long considered an authority for presidential polling, gave Mr.\u00a0Bush after the Republican convention was fully erased by that fateful 90-minute confrontation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Step by step, debate-by-debate, John Kerry has addressed and removed many remaining doubts among uncommitted voters. My own polling research after each debate suggests a rather bleak outlook for the Bush candidacy: many who still claim to be &#8220;undecided&#8221; are in fact leaning to Mr.\u00a0Kerry and are about ready to commit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like good news to me.<\/p>\n<p>(via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/oct\/oct16.html\" title=\"Oct. 16th\">Current Electoral Vote Predictor<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;bids=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4&#38;gridnum=-1\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%2526albumTerm=A New High In Low%2526songTerm=Train%26partnerId%3D30\">Train<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%26partnerId%3D30\">Pigface<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%2526albumTerm=A New High In Low%26partnerId%3D30\">A New High In Low<\/a><\/em> (1997, 24:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Luntz, one of the country&#8217;s top Republican pollsters, is saying that Bush is in serious trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}