{"id":155,"date":"2008-10-21T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/21\/mccains-challenge-in-a-nutshell\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T13:59:00","slug":"mccains-challenge-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/21\/mccains-challenge-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s challenge in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With two weeks to go, John McCain has to accomplish two enormous tasks:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Hold all the half-dozen GOP battleground states (including Florida and Ohio) that are now basically Obama-McCain toss-ups.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Flip BOTH Colorado and Virginia from the Obama column back to the McCain column.  One isn&#8217;t enough.  To win, McCain needs both.  That means closing a 5-8% gap in two states.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that McCain can&#8217;t simply slog it out in the trenches.  Ethical or no, robo-calls aren&#8217;t going to cut it.<\/p>\n<p>He needs a big national game-changer, something that pulls down Obama&#8217;s numbers significantly across the board. <\/p>\n<p>Is there an October surprise still lurking out there?  If so, it&#8217;s time for the GOP to pull the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two weeks to go, John McCain has to accomplish two enormous tasks: 1. Hold [&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\/155"}],"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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}