{"id":262,"date":"2009-04-17T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:40","slug":"another-hastert-for-congress-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Another Hastert for Congress Effort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening on my drive home from work, I received a call from a campaign supporter by the name of Ben.  He was calling to tell me that he had received a polling call yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ben, who lives in Illinois\u2019 14th Congressional District, did not know who conducted the poll, but he recognized that the polling questions were framed by the Republican Party.  Issue questions framed Obama\u2019s agenda in a negative light and focused on tax cuts.  It always amazes me that the Republicans have not figured out the fact that their tried and true message of the past, \u201ctax cuts will save America,\u201d is not working.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part of the poll was the question about Dennis Hastert.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the election were held today, would you vote for Dennis Hastert or Bill Foster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next question was similar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the election were held today, would you vote for Ethan Hastert or Bill Foster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speculate away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening on my drive home from work, I received a call from a campaign supporter by the name of Ben. He was calling to tell me that he had received a polling call yesterday. Ben, who lives in Illinois\u2019 14th Congressional District, did not know who conducted the poll, but he recognized that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[105,15,7,104,9,2869,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}