{"id":5861,"date":"2012-04-21T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:23:11","slug":"if-the-obama-romney-election-were-held-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/21\/if-the-obama-romney-election-were-held-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Obama-Romney election were held today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunday survey of all the very latest polling data from all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>If today were election day and voters voted exactly in line with the latest polls, President Barack Obama would win a second term by a handy margin of 309 electoral college votes to 229 for Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>(270 electoral college votes are needed to win.)<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, Romney wins Arizona, New Hamphsire, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia. Obama wins Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Romney obviously needs a couple of big flips, likely Florida, Pennsylvania or Ohio.\u00a0 He also needs to shore up his support in New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia, where his leads are razor-thin.<\/p>\n<p>Seven months to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunday survey of all the very latest polling data from all 50 states. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6548,6550,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861"}],"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=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}