{"id":2627,"date":"2007-10-12T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/12\/the-politics-of-handling-mcconnell-mitch\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T16:28:02","slug":"the-politics-of-handling-mcconnell-mitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/12\/the-politics-of-handling-mcconnell-mitch\/","title":{"rendered":"the politics of handling McConnell, Mitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic leaning groups who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/2007-10-09-mcconnell_N.htm\">targetting Mitch McConnell like crazy right now<\/a>, with some relatively boiler-plate anti-war attacks, would do well to drum up some advertisements about the current <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/10\/11\/mcconnell-staffer-smear-graeme\/\">Mitch McConnell &#8211; directed line of attack<\/a> on the family of the 12 year old who delivered the DNC radio address on behalf of the expansion of the S-CHIP program.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to get the approval rating of McConnell below 50 before the year is out.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the incumbency factor negates the support of the war (which tends to be a mixed bag, as you can always somehow posture up an attack on the &#8220;wimps&#8221; in this regard) &#8212; and that only gets one so far.\u00c2\u00a0 So you highlight his sliminess in attacking&#8230; um&#8230; <em>a 12 year old?<\/em> &#8212; with only the thinnest lines of &#8220;plausible deniability&#8221; built into the racket.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell: #11 on the Senate race list of Democratic targets.\u00c2\u00a0 (Yes, I have them unscientifically ranked&#8230; because I&#8217;m a dork.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic leaning groups who are targetting Mitch McConnell like crazy right now, with some relatively boiler-plate anti-war attacks, would do well to drum up some advertisements about the current Mitch McConnell &#8211; directed line of attack on the family of the 12 year old who delivered the DNC radio address on behalf of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}