{"id":16886,"date":"2025-12-18T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/voters-prefer-moderate-candidates-over-progressives-maga-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:21:38","slug":"voters-prefer-moderate-candidates-over-progressives-maga-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/voters-prefer-moderate-candidates-over-progressives-maga-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters prefer moderate candidates over progressives, MAGA: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters prefer moderate candidates over both progressive and MAGA contenders for the next presidential race,  according to a new Emerson College Polling survey.  In a hypothetical 2028 matchup against a progressive Democrat, voters sided with a moderate Republican by roughly 12 points. A moderate Democrat, on the other hand&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5652984-moderate-democrats-republicans-preferred\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters prefer moderate candidates over both progressive and MAGA contenders for the next presidential race, according to a new Emerson College Polling survey. In a hypothetical 2028 matchup against a progressive Democrat, voters sided with a moderate Republican by roughly 12 points. A moderate Democrat, on the other hand&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}