{"id":2648,"date":"2012-09-25T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2012-09-25T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:41:01","slug":"as-polls-show-romney-trailing-in-swing-states-obama-edges-towards-270-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/as-polls-show-romney-trailing-in-swing-states-obama-edges-towards-270-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"As Polls Show Romney Trailing In Swing States, Obama Edges Towards 270 Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there is evidence of voters changing their mind as the finish line approaches.<\/p>\n<p>But this year there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much movement in the polls, and certainly not towards Romney.<\/p>\n<p>In my July 9 column, my projections had Obama with 247 electoral votes to Romney&#8217;s 206, with 270 needed to win. Eighty-five electoral votes \u2014 from seven states \u2014 were still undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, with the possible exception of Wisconsin, Romney has not advanced his cause in any of these states. And he&#8217;s probably still trailing in the Badger State as well.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at those seven tossups (and we may be adding North Carolina to that list, after having put it in Romney&#8217;s totals):<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/politicaljunkie\/2012\/09\/24\/161241497\/as-polls-show-romney-trailing-in-swing-states-obama-edges-towards-270-goal?ft=1&amp;f=1014\" target=\"_blank\">As Polls Show Romney Trailing In Swing States, Obama Edges Towards 270 Goal : Political Junkie : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there is evidence of voters changing their mind as the finish line approaches. But this year there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much movement in the polls, and certainly not towards Romney. In my July 9 column, my projections had Obama with 247 electoral votes to Romney&#8217;s 206, with 270 needed to win. Eighty-five electoral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22,20],"tags":[709,42,1516,301,1180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648"}],"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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}