{"id":2533,"date":"2012-09-10T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2012-09-10T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:28:03","slug":"15-percent-of-ohio-gopers-say-romney-deserves-credit-for-bin-laden-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/15-percent-of-ohio-gopers-say-romney-deserves-credit-for-bin-laden-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Percent of Ohio GOPers Say Romney Deserves Credit for Bin Laden Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">In what some (<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NickBaumann\/status\/244982256110821377\" target=\"_blank\">one guy on Twitter<\/a>) have called &#8220;a stroke of comic genius,&#8221; Public Policy Polling decided to ask Ohio Republicans who they thought &#8220;deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. In what some (my colleague Tim Murphy) have called &#8220;the greatest thing ever,&#8221; a full 15 percent of Ohio Republicans surveyed said Romney deserved more credit than the president. Another 47 percent said they were &#8220;unsure.&#8221; This led to all sorts of funny quips on Twitter:<\/p>\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"position: relative !important; max-width: 550px !important; margin: 7px auto !important; clear: both !important; font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 16px !important; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif !important; float: none !important; width: 442.3833312988281px; background-color: #ffffff;\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"twt-border\" style=\"position: relative !important; top: auto !important; right: auto !important; bottom: auto !important; left: auto !important; z-index: auto !important; float: none !important; width: auto !important; height: auto !important; min-width: 250px !important; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; overflow: visible !important; clip: auto !important; clear: none !important; font-size: 12px !important; word-spacing: normal !important; 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border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; quotes: none !important; outline: 0px !important; opacity: 1 !important; visibility: visible !important; size: auto !important; -webkit-box-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; direction: ltr !important; page: auto !important; display: block !important;\">Favorite<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">This is amusing, but no one should take it particularly seriously. Significant percentages of Americans claim to believe\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/24\/one-in-five-americans-believe_n_691843.html\" target=\"_blank\">all sorts of crazy things<\/a>, and it&#8217;s possible that a large percentage of the people who told PPP that Romney deserves credit for the bin Laden raid simply wanted to say eff-you to the president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/09\/ohio-republicans-poll-romney-bin-laden\" target=\"_blank\">15 Percent of Ohio GOPers Say Romney Deserves Credit for Bin Laden Raid | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what some (one guy on Twitter) have called &#8220;a stroke of comic genius,&#8221; Public Policy Polling decided to ask Ohio Republicans who they thought &#8220;deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. In what some (my colleague Tim Murphy) have called &#8220;the greatest thing ever,&#8221; a full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1444,26,584,295,301,1443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533"}],"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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}