{"id":14059,"date":"2012-11-05T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:18:56","slug":"final-abc-wapo-poll-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/final-abc-wapo-poll-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Final ABC-WaPo Poll Is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom line: In the popular vote, Obama will win over Romney by a surprisingly small margin, if he wins.<\/p>\n<p>People generally think Obama is going to win, as per<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2012\/11\/05\/wapo-abc-tracking-poll-final-weekend-tally-is-obama-50-romney-47-still-a-margin-of-error-contest\/\"> this graphic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-05-who-win.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-05-who-win-300x180.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012-11-05-who-win\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14060\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the actual &#8220;I&#8217;m voting for X&#8221; numbers are 50% Obama, 47% Romney. That is within the margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2012\/11\/05\/National-Politics\/Polling\/release_172.xml\">here<\/a>, indicates that while the numbers are close, Obama&#8217;s support is slightly (but only slightly) more enthusiastic than Romney&#8217;s.  Obama has a good approval number compared to Romney&#8217;s but for some reason people, who are apparently all idiots, think that Romney will do a better job than Obama at handling the economy, even though a strong majority accredit Obama with understanding the economic problems the country is having.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom line: In the popular vote, Obama will win over Romney by a surprisingly small margin, if he wins. People generally think Obama is going to win, as per this graphic: But the actual &#8220;I&#8217;m voting for X&#8221; numbers are 50% Obama, 47% Romney. That is within the margin of error. The poll, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/final-abc-wapo-poll-is-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final ABC-WaPo Poll Is Out<\/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":[4137,504,3361,894,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3EL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059"}],"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=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}