{"id":178,"date":"2008-10-26T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/26\/eight-days-to-go\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:33:00","slug":"eight-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/26\/eight-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight days to go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three major polling aggregators all agree that Democrat Barack Obama has locked up states that give him between 259 and 268 Electoral College votes. <\/p>\n<p>He needs just 270 to win the presidency.  So he begins the last full week of campaigning poised at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Republican John McCain has secured states that promise him somewhere between 137 and 142 EC votes. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s in far worse shape than he was when he captured the Republican nomination way back in March.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s crass for bloviators to call an election before the votes have been cast.  So I&#8217;ll raise two possibilities for these final days:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Some kind of major game-changing event occurs &#8212; massive in scope &#8212; that would open a door to McCain.  A minor gaffe won&#8217;t do it. <\/p>\n<p>or &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>2.  The only question on election night will be &#8220;How big is Obama&#8217;s victory &#8211; a narrow win in the Democratic Party tradition, or something more profound?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three major polling aggregators all agree that Democrat Barack Obama has locked up states [&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\/178"}],"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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}