{"id":2299,"date":"2008-03-21T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2008-03-21T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:50:40","slug":"getting-purpler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"Getting Purpler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmussen says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/minnesota\/minnesota_2008_presidential_election\">the Obama\/Clinton lock on Minnesota is fading a bit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Minnesota, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 47% to 43%. The election poll also shows McCain essentially even with Hillary Clinton, leading her by a statistically insignificant 47% to 46%.<\/p>\n<p>Obama leads McCain by eight points among women but trails by a single point among men. Clinton leads McCain by twelve among women but trails by seventeen among men.<\/p>\n<p>Obama leads McCain by fourteen points among unaffiliated voters while McCain leads Clinton by nine among those same voters.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is viewed favorably by 58% of Minnesota voters. Fifty-seven percent (57%) say the same about Obama while 50% have a favorable opinion of Clinton. Compared to a month ago, Obama\u2019s favorables are down seven, McCain\u2019s ratings have fallen four points, and Clinton is down one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rasmussen has <strike>down<\/strike>upgraded Minnesota from &#8220;Likely Democratic&#8221; to &#8220;Leaning Demcoratic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep tugging on that rope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmussen says that the Obama\/Clinton lock on Minnesota is fading a bit: In Minnesota, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 47% to 43%. The election poll also shows McCain essentially even with Hillary Clinton, leading her by a statistically insignificant 47% to 46%. Obama leads McCain by eight points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}