{"id":1112,"date":"2004-08-27T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/tennessee_looks_blue_to_me\/"},"modified":"2004-08-27T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T05:00:38","slug":"tennessee_looks_blue_to_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/tennessee_looks_blue_to_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee: Looks Blue To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been commenting on presidential election polls as much as some people have.  A couple reasons for this.  First, the election isn&#8217;t today and the slight bobbing up and down of the polls over the next month or so isn&#8217;t that significant.  Second, the generic national polls are pretty meaningless, since we don&#8217;t elect based on the popular vote.<br \/>\nElectoral College polls are a little better.  And since Zogby has the reputation of being more accurate than most, I note his snapshot of where things stand heading into the Republican convention.<br \/>\nBased on polling in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=853\">16 battleground states<\/a> Zogby has the current score as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry  286<br \/>\nBush  214<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two states&#8211;Florida and Missouri&#8211;are too close to call.  I&#8217;m not paying to read the full report, but according to the map shown on MSNBC, the only toss-up states Bush leads in are Ohio and West Virginia.  All the rest, including Tennessee, are leaning toward Kerry.<br \/>\nSo when is Kerry going to start doing some serious campaigning in the Volunteer State?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/tennessee_looks_blue_to_me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tennessee: Looks Blue To Me\"><p>You may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been commenting on presidential election polls as much as some people have. A couple reasons for this. First, the election isn&#8217;t today and the slight bobbing up and down of the polls over the next month or so isn&#8217;t that significant. Second, the generic national polls are pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}