{"id":124,"date":"2008-10-08T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/08\/how-mccain-wins-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:57:00","slug":"how-mccain-wins-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/08\/how-mccain-wins-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How McCain wins, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noted in my last post that McCain has to win eight key states to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Nevada, Indiana, and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican is currently trailing in five of those states, according to recent polls.<\/p>\n<p>Now Politico.com is reporting some troubling news for McCain: <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s being outspent in every single state, sometimes by nearly 10-to-1 margins.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, Barack Obama is spending three dollars for every one spent by McCain.<\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina, the Democrat spent $1.2 million on TV advertising during the measured period.<\/p>\n<p>McCain?  $148,000.<\/p>\n<p>Spending by outside groups could make up some of the gap for McCain, but those numbers stink.<\/p>\n<p>One other bit of dire news for McCain:  He spent a ton of scarce cash on states that now look out of reach &#8211; including $1.2 million in Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted in my last post that McCain has to win eight key states to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}