{"id":165,"date":"2008-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/npr-reports-collapse-of-mccains-rural-support\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:00:00","slug":"npr-reports-collapse-of-mccains-rural-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/npr-reports-collapse-of-mccains-rural-support\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR reports collapse of McCain&#8217;s rural support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Berkes, NPR&#8217;s rural correspondent, is citing poll numbers that suggest a major decline on Republican John McCain&#8217;s rural support &#8212; a foundation for his hopes in November.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That is really bad news for John McCain. If the rural vote is essentially split in these swing states, then John McCain is certain to lose,&#8221; says Seth McKee, a political scientist at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. McKee specializes in rural voting patterns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out Howard&#8217;s full report here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=96008609\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=96008609<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One word of caution to Obama supporters (and comfort to McCain fans):  Kerry seemed to show some strength in rural America, too, but small-town voters rallied to Bush in the final days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Berkes, NPR&#8217;s rural correspondent, is citing poll numbers that suggest a major decline on [&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\/165"}],"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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}