{"id":3259,"date":"2008-09-08T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:15:00","slug":"hand-on-the-lever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"Hand on the lever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post-convention\u00a0wrap-up:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The RNC convention bump has McCain up +1.0. Time will tell if that will stick. The USA Today poll, Obama&#8217;s favorite isn&#8217;t good news for him. McCain +10.<\/p>\n<p>Of late, polls of polls have shown Senators Obama and McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/polls\/\">deadlocked<\/a>. But McCain clearly has the momentum right now&#8230;voters by the thousands in attendance to see McCain\/<strong>Palin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/counters\/customcounter.html?month=11&amp;day=4&amp;year=2008&amp;hour=&amp;min=&amp;sec=&amp;p0=263\/\">56<\/a> days to go.<\/p>\n<p>Can America really be split <em>exactly<\/em> down the middle?<\/p>\n<p>How accurate are polls at predicting the outcome of the election to come?<\/p>\n<p>Is the liberal media behind the design of most of them? If so, do we\u00a0assume McCain is doing better than he is?<\/p>\n<p>When Americans step into the booth, hand on the lever, are they ready to vote for an African American President for the first time in history?<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives &#8211; if the GOP\u00a0candidate were Colin Powell, would race be even <em>more<\/em> a factor?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I <em>hope<\/em> race is no longer a factor but am I naive?<\/p>\n<p>Is McCain, the\u00a0more historically conventional candidate,\u00a0the default if voters enter the booth undecided?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or will they stay home?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of staying home, will Obama once and for all be the candidate that gets young,\u00a0first-time voters\u00a0to vote? If so, will they all vote for <em>him<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>If the polls continue to reflect a shift in momentum to McCain\/Palin, should Obama dump Biden, in an unprecedented admission of a poor choice of VP, and select Hillary?<\/p>\n<p>Is that what <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5izQosMtCfjNjE1uAP6fQV2BZ_qWwD93262B80\">lunch<\/a> with Bill is about? Change?<\/p>\n<p>Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Undecided&#8230;all are welcome: Discuss. Pick any (or all) question(s) you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>What do <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> think?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post-convention\u00a0wrap-up:\u00a0 The RNC convention bump has McCain up +1.0. Time will tell if that will stick. The USA Today poll, Obama&#8217;s favorite isn&#8217;t good news for him. McCain +10. Of late, polls of polls have shown Senators Obama and McCain deadlocked. But McCain clearly has the momentum right now&#8230;voters by the thousands in attendance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}