{"id":674,"date":"2004-10-03T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2004-10-03T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T02:24:42","slug":"the-big-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KerryThumb.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">And if <i>Gallup<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/president\/2004-10-03-poll_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> it&#8217;s tied&#8230;[fill in own thoughts here].<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Favorable public reaction to his performance in the first presidential debate has boosted Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and narrowed the contest with President Bush to a tie, according to a new USA TODAY\/CNN\/Gallup Poll.<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s lead of 8 percentage points before Thursday&#8217;s debate evaporated in a survey taken Friday through Sunday. Among likely voters, Bush and Kerry are at 49% each.<\/p>\n[Kerry] Was judged the winner of the debate by more than 2-to-1, 57% to 25%. By 13 points, voters say Kerry expresses himself more clearly than Bush. By 10 points, they say he is more intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>In the 17 states seen by both sides as most competitive, Kerry has a slight lead, 47% to 45%. Before the debate, he lagged by 7 points in those battlegrounds.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;according to Gallup anyway. And we all know that Gallup [fill in own thoughts here].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if Gallup says it&#8217;s tied&#8230;[fill in own thoughts here]. Favorable public reaction to his performance in the first presidential debate has boosted Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and narrowed the contest with President Bush to a tie, according to a new USA TODAY\/CNN\/Gallup Poll. Bush&#8217;s lead of 8 percentage points before Thursday&#8217;s debate evaporated in [&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-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}