{"id":2074,"date":"2008-04-11T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/11\/stunning-politics\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:15:49","slug":"stunning-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/stunning-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Politics (Adult Content)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had been assumed that Hillary Clinton would do very well in Pennsylvania against Barack Obama, continuing the relative ambiguity of which candidate should be chosen at the Democratic National Convention.  However, recent polls show that Obama is closing the lead, and is now probably well within 10 percentage points of Clinton, with about 10 percent of polled voters undecided.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2008\/president\/pa\/pennsylvania_democratic_primary-240.html\">Real Clear Politics<\/a> average of seven recent pols shows the spread at 7.8 percent.  Most important, though, is a huge shift from 20 percent difference prior to late March to a 10 percent difference today.  It is not clear that the difference is narrowing, but it is clear that it has suddenly gotten narrow.The word is that the two candidates are slogging it out in ad space, each spending millions and coming up with region-specific multiple ads. Here are a couple of examples:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6z-ZXiwDkkg&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PlkfpZbc8OY&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1f8368db5163b62eb5a5522bba621028-Nude_Carla_Bruni_Photograph.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-1f8368db5163b62eb5a5522bba621028-Nude_Carla_Bruni_Photograph.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Just as a reminder:  The current delegate count is Obama 1641 and Clinton 1505 including super delegates.  Pennsylvania had 158 delegates in a closed primary and 2024 are needed to win.  If Obama won every single available delegate, he would still fall short of this number.In the mean time, across the pond in France, a very artistic photograph of Carla Bruni, the First Lady &#8212; taken in 1993 &#8212; sold at Christie&#8217;s Auction house for 91,000 dollars.  The price paid by a Chinese art collector is significantly higher than previously anticipated.She and her husband were just about to make their first state visit to Britain at the time of the release of the photograph, and this apparently was upsetting to them.  However, Christies has argued that this is nothing other than a tasteful piece of art created by Swiss renowned photographer Michel Compte.  The artist&#8217;s interpretation of the photograph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comte says that Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s wife is &#8220;naked in this picture but at the same time shows her masculine side. And even goes on to say that it could even be a man. &#8220;It seems as if she is touching or hiding her sex: she plays. She looks afraid, with her feet pointing inside and her face has the expression of a mask, as if it was torn from her body, he continued.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artdaily.com\/index.asp?int_sec=2&#038;int_new=23691\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been assumed that Hillary Clinton would do very well in Pennsylvania against Barack Obama, continuing the relative ambiguity of which candidate should be chosen at the Democratic National Convention. However, recent polls show that Obama is closing the lead, and is now probably well within 10 percentage points of Clinton, with about 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/stunning-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stunning Politics (Adult Content)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-xs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}