{"id":30222,"date":"2015-02-16T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30222"},"modified":"2015-02-14T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:12:37","slug":"the-rise-of-scott-walker-has-mother-jones-all-freaked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/the-rise-of-scott-walker-has-mother-jones-all-freaked-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Scott Walker has Mother Jones<\/em> all freaked out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps not all the staff at Mother Jones<\/em> are as worried about the conservative threat that is Scott Walker, but Kevin Drum<\/a> appears more than a little concerned about his evident troglodyte ideological profile:<\/p>\n

\"RepublicanFor those of us who are sort of fascinated by the rise of Scott Walker as a Republican presidential contender, here’s an interesting chart from Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University. It shows the relative conservative-ness of GOP presidential nominees in the past six contested elections, and it demonstrates what an outlier Walker would be if he won next year’s primary: He’d be the first candidate since Ronald Reagan who’s more<\/em> conservative than the average of the Republican field. And by McDaniel’s measure, he’d actually be the most conservative recent nominee, period \u2014 even more right-wing than Reagan<\/a>:<\/p>\n