{"id":2022,"date":"2006-10-17T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/white-house-upbeat-about-gop-prospects\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:01:58","slug":"white-house-upbeat-about-gop-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/white-house-upbeat-about-gop-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/14\/AR2006101401051.html?referrer=email\">White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> By Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, <strong class=\"highlight\">there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say <strong class=\"highlight\">Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats<\/strong> &#8212; shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush&#8217;s second term.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Rove thinks he has the winning slogan:<\/p>\n<h1>Vote Republican<br \/>\nIt can&#8217;t get any worse<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects &#8211; washingtonpost.com By Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post Staff Writer Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/white-house-upbeat-about-gop-prospects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}