{"id":2710,"date":"2012-10-01T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:28:38","slug":"dispatch-poll-obama-widens-lead-as-balloting-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/dispatch-poll-obama-widens-lead-as-balloting-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch Poll: Obama widens lead as balloting starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Dispatch Poll shows him trailing President Barack Obama in bellwether Ohio by 9 points, 51 percent to 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A surge of Democratic support for Obama has transformed the race since the first Dispatch Poll had the two dead-even at 45 percent just before the Republican National Convention in late August.<\/p>\n<p>The survey is the fifth major poll \u2014 from The Washington Post to Fox News \u2014 of Ohio voters in a week to show the president ahead by 5 to 10 points. He also leads in surveys of most of the remaining swing states.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s rise comes at an especially fortuitous time for the Democrat: Ohioans begin casting early ballots in two days.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, while Romney is counting on strong performances in a trio of presidential debates that begin Wednesday night in Denver to transform the campaign, every day that Obama leads allows the incumbent to lock in supporters \u2014 much the way he did with great success in the 2008 election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/09\/30\/1-dispatch-poll-shows-obama-in-lead.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatch Poll: Obama widens lead as balloting starts | The Columbus Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Dispatch Poll shows him trailing President Barack Obama in bellwether Ohio by 9 points, 51 percent to 42 percent. A surge of Democratic support for Obama has transformed the race since the first Dispatch Poll had the two dead-even at 45 percent just before the Republican National Convention in late August. The survey&#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":[42,584,319,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"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=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}