{"id":13429,"date":"2012-09-14T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:13:47","slug":"its-the-arithmetic-stupid-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/14\/its-the-arithmetic-stupid-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s the Arithmetic, Stupid (Part ii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama experienced a significant post-convention bounce. Already a little bit ahead, this places Obama more firmly ahead of Romney.  But, the news would be so much more interesting if the two were much closer. How does one solve this problem if you are CNN?  Make stuff up!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday CNN reported polls that showed Obama ahead of Romney by several points in key swing states of Virginia, Ohio and Florida.  Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/09\/14\/1131652\/-CNN-calls-a-five-point-lead-for-Barack-Obama-in-swing-states-a-tie\">according to Steve Singiser<\/a>, &#8220;CNN&#8217;s Gregory Wallace, writing up the polls on the media outlet&#8217;s website, categorized Florida and Virginia as a tie. A tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama experienced a significant post-convention bounce. Already a little bit ahead, this places Obama more firmly ahead of Romney. But, the news would be so much more interesting if the two were much closer. How does one solve this problem if you are CNN? Make stuff up! Yesterday CNN reported polls that showed Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/14\/its-the-arithmetic-stupid-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#039;s the Arithmetic, Stupid (Part ii)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3uB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}