{"id":31479,"date":"2012-11-25T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/fearing-moderation.html"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:58:45","slug":"fearing-moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/fearing-moderation.html","title":{"rendered":"Fearing moderation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama campaign was much more worried that John Huntsman would get the nomination than that Romney would. \u00a0The reason is obvious — most of the Right would have held their nose to vote for a Republican moderate, and much of the middle might well have chosen Huntsman over Obama. \u00a0(Heck, I might have considered it, given my unhappiness about some of Obama's record on national security matters.)<\/p>\n

As long as the GOP keeps running to the Far Right (whether or not Romney was an extremist, he certainly actively campaigned to win their votes and their contributions), they will continue to lose on a national level, and lose increasingly worse. And while that should make my Democratic heart thump with glee, it means that the Democratic leadership will be able to be less responsive to their base and interests ("What're they gonna do, vote for Santorum?"), which means both<\/i> sides lose.<\/p>\n

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Huntsman was the only Republican candidate I would have given any\u00a0consideration\u00a0to at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tObama campaign manager Jim Messina revealed that Mitt Romney was not their primary concern (pun intended), telling the Salt Lake Tribune:
\n\u201cWe were honest about our concerns about Huntsman. I think Huntsman [as Republican nominee] would have been a tough general election campaign.\u201d
\nSenior Obama adviser David Plouffe had expressed such concern even before Utah\u2019s former governor launched his failed presidential bid, with one journalist noting that a…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Obama campaign was much more worried that John Huntsman would get the nomination than that Romney would. \u00a0The reason is obvious — most of the Right would have held their nose to vote for a Republican moderate, and much of the middle might well have chosen Huntsman over Obama. \u00a0(Heck, I might have considered … Continue reading “Fearing moderation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/is-ideology-taking-a-back-seat-to-electability.html","url_meta":{"origin":31479,"position":0},"title":"Is ideology taking a back seat to electability?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Dec-11 9:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"The article suggests that GOP primary voters \/ poll-takers are worrying more about electability of their presidential primary candidates (vs. Obama) than about what they believe in. 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