{"id":4143,"date":"2008-01-14T18:33:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T01:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/michigan-and-the-war\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T01:34:51","slug":"michigan-and-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/michigan-and-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan And The War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to\u00c2\u00a0James Bovard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/the-war-issue-in-the-michigan-primary\/\">question<\/a> about the war and the Michigan primary, here are some indications of how the war\u00c2\u00a0may be\u00c2\u00a0affecting the primary.\u00c2\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicvision.biz\/political\/michigan_poll_011008.htm\">Strategic Vision<\/a>, 39% of <em>Republicans <\/em>support withdrawal for American forces from Iraq in the next six months, which hints that Michigan should be receptive to an antiwar message.\u00c2\u00a0 However, as he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war\/\">noted<\/a> about the exit polls from New Hampshire, antiwar voters seem to have backed McCain\u00c2\u00a0there for some reason, which\u00c2\u00a0suggests that the war was either a low priority for most of these voters or they did not identify McCain with the ultra-hawkish wing of the GOP.\u00c2\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/michigan\/election_2008_michigan_republican_primary\">Rasmussen<\/a>, Ron Paul has 8% support, which is one of his best poll results since his fifth-place finish in New Hampshire last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on the crosstabs of that Rasmussen poll, 92% believe Iraq is &#8220;very important&#8221; or &#8220;somewhat important,&#8221; but those who rate it as very important tend to be &#8220;conservative,&#8221; among whom Paul does not poll as well as among &#8220;moderates.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 To the best of my knowledge, all the leading candidates have been running\u00c2\u00a0heavily on domestic, economic issues, given Michigan&#8217;s high unemployment rate.\u00c2\u00a0 The wild card remains Democratic crossover voters who have no stake in the essentially one-sided Democratic primary, where Clinton is the only leading named candidate\u00c2\u00a0on the ballot because of a DNC ruling againt Michigan for its early primary.\u00c2\u00a0 These Democrats\u00c2\u00a0could follow the lead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/1\/10\/2713\/87225\/55\/434206\">Kos<\/a> and back Romney, or\u00c2\u00a0antiwar Democrats\u00c2\u00a0could vote on principle for Paul and boost his final result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to\u00c2\u00a0James Bovard&#8217;s question about the war and the Michigan primary, here are some indications of how the war\u00c2\u00a0may be\u00c2\u00a0affecting the primary.\u00c2\u00a0 According to Strategic Vision, 39% of Republicans support withdrawal for American forces from Iraq in the next six months, which hints that Michigan should be receptive to an antiwar message.\u00c2\u00a0 However, as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}