{"id":3324,"date":"2008-09-18T07:04:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:04:48","slug":"people-ask-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"People Ask Me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“…what about those polls that are showing Obama is tied or leading Mac again?”<\/p>\n

I respond “Well, yeah – the convention bounce is over, the media’s slime campaign against Palin is taking its pound of flesh, and – as with most media polls – they oversample Democrats<\/a> anyway”.<\/p>\n

As I said last week, the bounce didn’t change the fact that Mac is the underdog. It’s going to be a knock-down, drag-out race – which I, a political junkie, love.\u00a0 And let’s face it – a month ago, I doubt many people thought it was going to be close, in the end.\u00a0 And make no mistake about it – for all the caterwauling that the media hypocritically plays up about America hating it, America loves it too.<\/p>\n

It’s time to win this campaign on what matters; the issues, sure, and on the blocking and tackling of running a good campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“…what about those polls that are showing Obama is tied or leading Mac again?” I respond “Well, yeah – the convention bounce is over, the media’s slime campaign against Palin is taking its pound of flesh, and – as with most media polls – they oversample Democrats anyway”. As I said last week, the bounce […]<\/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-3324","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\/3324","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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}