{"id":948,"date":"2012-09-21T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/21\/ticket-drag-not-always-true"},"modified":"2012-09-21T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:02:00","slug":"ticket-drag-not-always-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Ticket drag not always true"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/250837-thompson-blames-romney-for-his-poor-poll-numbers-in-wisconsin\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/250837-thompson-blames-romney-for-his-poor-poll-numbers-in-wisconsin\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/250837-thompson-blames-romney-for-his-poor-poll-numbers-in-wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson can be excused for over-generalization.<\/p>\n<p>He blames Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney\u2019s poor performance on the campaign trail for dragging down the rest of the GOP slate in the State of the Cheeseheads. He also says it\u2019s inevitable that when the top of the ticket is faltering that it has an impact on the down-ballot races.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too bad Lloyd Bentsen isn\u2019t around to refute that contention.<\/p>\n<p>The late, great Texas U.S. senator had the high honor of running for vice president in 1988 on a ticket led by another guy from Massachusetts, then-Gov. Michael Dukakis. Bentsen also was running for re-election to the Senate that year against Republican hopeful Beau Boulter, a congressman from Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>Bentsen faced the same \u201cdrag\u201d in Texas that Thompson is facing up yonder in Wisconsin. The Dukakis-Bentsen ticket didn\u2019t fare too well in that election, losing big to George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle. The Republicans carried Texas handily en route to their Electoral College landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Bentsen, though, fared much better against Boulter, thumping the Senate challenger by an even bigger margin than the one run up by Bush-Quayle in the Lone Star State. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, maybe it isn\u2019t all Mitt\u2019s fault. Besides, doesn\u2019t Romney have a guy from Wisconsin running with him at the top of the ticket? Thompson\u2019s sliding poll numbers might have as much to do with his own candidacy \u2026 you know? <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/250837-thompson-blames-romney-for-his-poor-poll-numbers-in-wisconsin Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson can be excused for over-generalization. He blames Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney\u2019s poor performance on the campaign trail for dragging down the rest of the GOP slate in the State of the Cheeseheads. He also says it\u2019s inevitable that when the top of the ticket is faltering that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ticket drag not always true<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}