{"id":3196,"date":"2008-09-01T06:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2008-09-01T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:05:45","slug":"with-mistakes-like-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"With &#8220;Mistakes&#8221; Like Palin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The notoriously Democrat-friendly Zogby poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews1547.html\">shows Mac in freefal<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Oops. They don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The interactive online Zogby survey shows that both Obama and McCain have solidified the support among their own parties &#8211; Obama won 86% support of Democrats and McCain 89% of Republicans in a two-way head-to-head poll question not including the running mates. When Biden and Palin are added to the mix, Obama&#8217;s Democratic support remains at 86%, while McCain&#8217;s increases to 92%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They <em>do\u00a0 <\/em>show that libertarian Bob Barr has an absurdly high vote total &#8211; high enough (presuming he&#8217;s stealing mostly from McCain\/Palin) to deny Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and (although crosstabs aren&#8217;t available for them) Montana and the Dakotas.<br \/>\nYes, I said &#8220;absurdly&#8221;.\u00a0 No Libertarian has ever polled much over 1% in the general election. \u00a0Chalk it up to it being an &#8220;online&#8221;, &#8220;interactive&#8221; poll, I thinki.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll slot this one into the &#8220;good news&#8221; column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notoriously Democrat-friendly Zogby poll shows Mac in freefall. UPDATE: Oops. They don&#8217;t. The interactive online Zogby survey shows that both Obama and McCain have solidified the support among their own parties &#8211; Obama won 86% support of Democrats and McCain 89% of Republicans in a two-way head-to-head poll question not including the running mates. [&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-3196","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\/3196","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=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}