{"id":1513,"date":"2008-01-11T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2009-03-13T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T09:33:38","slug":"1508-of-expect-democrat-but-prefer-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"[1508] Of expect Democrat but prefer Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal (<a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/new-survey-of-economists.html\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked whom they expect to win the presidency, 63% of the economists in the survey picked a Democrat &#8212; with their choice split between Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, with 33% of the total, and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, with 30%. (The survey was conducted before Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s win in New Hampshire.) Republican Sen. John McCain was the pick of 30% of economists, with two other Republicans, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, each getting 3%.<\/p>\n<p>However, when asked their personal preference, the economists favored Republicans. Sen. McCain led the field with 39% of the forecasters&#8217; votes, compared with 11% for Mr. Giuliani and 7% for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Among Democrats, Sen. Obama edged Sen. Clinton, 14% to 11%, while former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards took 4%. [<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119990867859778525.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Odds of Recession Seen Rising<\/em><\/a>. Wall Street Journal. January 11 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I share the same sentiment and I have <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1296\">rationalized it earlier last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal (via): When asked whom they expect to win the presidency, 63% of the economists in the survey picked a Democrat &#8212; with their choice split between Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, with 33% of the total, and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, with 30%. (The survey was conducted before Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}