{"id":1823,"date":"2012-04-26T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2012-04-26T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:40:53","slug":"predict-obamas-odds-in-the-2012-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/predict-obamas-odds-in-the-2012-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Predict Obama&#8217;s odds in the 2012 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political scientists at George Washington, Yale and UCLA believe most elections can be predicted with just a few pieces of information. They created a formula that uses economic growth, presidential approval ratings in June and incumbency to forecast President Obama\u2019s share of the two-party vote in the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/politics\/2012-election-predictor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blog-promo.jpg\" alt=\"Predict Obamas odds in the 2012 election - The Washington Post\" width=\"357\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/politics\/2012-election-predictor\/\">Predict Obamas odds in the 2012 election &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political scientists at George Washington, Yale and UCLA believe most elections can be predicted with just a few pieces of information. They created a formula that uses economic growth, presidential approval ratings in June and incumbency to forecast President Obama\u2019s share of the two-party vote in the Nov. 6 election. &nbsp; SOURCE:\u00a0Predict Obamas odds in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1145,1143,42,1144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}