{"id":3520,"date":"2008-10-23T05:16:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T03:56:01","slug":"like-the-minnesota-poll-only-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Like The Minnesota Poll, Only Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D93VM4PO0&#038;show_article=1\">calls the race even<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Joe the plumber&#8221; analogy struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, an AP-GfK survey found that Obama had surged to a seven-point lead over McCain, lifted by voters who thought the Democrat was better suited to lead the nation through its sudden economic crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IBD\/TIPP? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/Polls.aspx?id=309546869309178\">Ditto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain has picked up 3 points in the West and with independents, married women and those with some college. He&#8217;s also gaining momentum in the suburbs, where he&#8217;s gone from dead even a week ago to a 20-point lead. Obama padded gains in urban areas and with lower-class households, but he slipped 4 points with parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews1604.html\">Zogmeister<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>These numbers, if they hold, are blowout numbers. They fit the 1980 model with Reagan&#8217;s victory over Carter &#8212; but they are happening 12 days before Reagan blasted ahead. If Obama wins like this we can be talking not only victory but realignment:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Sounds serious.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously hosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only reason for polls like this (and the Minnesota Poll) is to try to depress GOP turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am declaring a conspiracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP calls the race even: The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Joe the plumber&#8221; analogy struck a [&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":[120],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}