{"id":23031,"date":"2011-09-21T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23031"},"modified":"2011-09-21T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:47:38","slug":"is-harold-stassen-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23031","title":{"rendered":"Is Harold Stassen Available?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is losing ground <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/09\/20\/v-fullstory\/2417008\/poll-finds-obama-losing-ground.html\">to <em>every\u00a0<\/em>Republican candidate<\/a>:.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year&#8217;s election, with a majority of voters believing he&#8217;ll lose to any Republican, a solid plurality saying they&#8217;ll definitely vote against him and most potential Republican challengers gaining on him.<\/p>\n<p>Even in potential matchups where he leads, Obama in most cases has lost ground to the Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And we do mean <em>any <\/em>Republican candidate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest gain came for Palin, the former Alaska governor who hasn&#8217;t yet announced whether she&#8217;ll jump into the fast-changing race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still firmly believe that Obama will turn this around &#8211; indeed, by next year, if the Democrats don&#8217;t gain 2-4 seats in the Senate, flip the House back, and win the presidency with a five point margin, they should feel completely humiliated.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m running out of ways to get from here to that end result.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is losing ground to every\u00a0Republican candidate:. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year&#8217;s election, with a majority of voters believing he&#8217;ll lose to any Republican, a solid plurality saying they&#8217;ll definitely vote against him and most potential Republican challengers gaining on him. Even in potential matchups where he [&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-23031","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\/23031","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=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23032,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions\/23032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}