{"id":20437,"date":"2011-06-07T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2011-06-07T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:50:26","slug":"touchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20437","title":{"rendered":"Touchable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/WaPo poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obama-loses-bin-laden-bounce-romney-on-the-move-among-gop-contenders\/2011\/06\/06\/AGT5wiKH_print.html\">shows Romney in a dead heat with Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Post-ABC numbers show Obama leading five of six potential Republican presidential rivals tested in the poll. But he is in a dead heat with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who formally announced his 2012 candidacy last week, making jobs and the economy the central issues in his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Among all Americans, Obama and Romney are knotted at 47 percent each, and among registered voters, the former governor is numerically ahead, 49 percent to 46 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As with all leftymedia polls, the results need to be scrutinized; the mainstream media will <em>always <\/em>try to build up the GOP contender they think they can either beat outright, or effectively marginalize (see McCain). \u00a0 Romney is weak among the conservative base&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;although pressure from the likes of Gingrich, Palin and Bachmann in the primary chase can only help that. \u00a0And given my belief that &#8220;perfect is the enemy of good enough&#8221;, I think a Romney that&#8217;d had to move hard to the right, <em>a la <\/em>Pawlenty in 2002, would be a huge step up from what we have.<\/p>\n<p>This bit &#8211; the one in bold &#8211; puzzles me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In another indicator of rapidly shifting views on economic issues, 45 percent trust congressional Republicans over the president when it comes to dealing with the economy, an 11-point improvement for the GOP since March. Still, <strong>nearly as many, 42 percent, side with Obama<\/strong> on this issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who <em>are <\/em>these people? And do they read the news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh, yeah. \u00a0Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/WaPo poll shows Romney in a dead heat with Obama: New Post-ABC numbers show Obama leading five of six potential Republican presidential rivals tested in the poll. But he is in a dead heat with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who formally announced his 2012 candidacy last week, making jobs and the economy the central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20440,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions\/20440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}