{"id":521,"date":"2004-09-11T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2004-09-11T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T17:57:05","slug":"what-bush-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"What Bush Bounce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The REPUBLICAN polling firm, Rasmussen released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm\" target=\"_blank\">latest numbers<\/a> today from their daily tracking poll. Bush has a 1 point lead over Kerry. 1 point. With Bush at 47% and Kerry at 46%.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen has had Bush out in front of Kerry for months, even while most polls showed Kerry ahead of Bush. So if they are now showing just a 1 point lead for Bush, well, feel free to extrapolate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether those numbers are &#8220;Likely Voters&#8221; or &#8220;Registered Voters&#8221;, but in general, the polling of &#8220;Likely Voters&#8221; has shown better numbers for Kerry than do the polls of &#8220;Registered Voters&#8221;. So extrapolate again.<\/p>\n<p>The race is still Kerry&#8217;s to lose. Which, in case you&#8217;re reading this John Kerry, doesn&#8217;t mean you should keep trying to lose!!!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> The numbers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ALL of the <i>latest<\/i> state polls<\/a> indicate that Kerry leads Bush in the electoral count still: 273 to 233 (with 270 being the number needed to win). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REPUBLICAN polling firm, Rasmussen released their latest numbers today from their daily tracking poll. Bush has a 1 point lead over Kerry. 1 point. With Bush at 47% and Kerry at 46%. Rasmussen has had Bush out in front of Kerry for months, even while most polls showed Kerry ahead of Bush. So if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}