{"id":6432,"date":"2012-08-16T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2012-08-16T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:49:12","slug":"100-day-sprint-a-bad-week-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/08\/16\/100-day-sprint-a-bad-week-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Day Sprint: A bad week for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just when it felt like Mitt Romney couldn’t catch a break — even Laura Ingraham was filing his campaign in the L folder — the Republicans have caught a strong week of new cycles, polls and self-inflicted wounds by the Democrats.<\/p>\n

The big play, of course, was the nomination of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who has led the effort to shape a Federal budget that shrinks entitlements while lessening the tax burden on ‘job creators.’\u00a0 So far, the pick has played well.<\/p>\n

According to a CNN poll, Wisconsin is now in play, with Team Romney just four points back.\u00a0 A burst of new polls<\/a> show many of the swing states — Ohio, Virginia, Florida — tightening to razor-thin margins.<\/p>\n

And in a week when Democrats wanted all eyes on Ryan’s Medicare plan, Vice President Joe Biden stole the show with a racially charged gaffe suggesting that Republicans want to put “y’all” back “in chains.”\u00a0 Now that’s<\/em> off message.<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney has also looked more fired up and combative, which could play well at the Republican convention just 11 days away.<\/p>\n

Increasingly, Barack Obama’s big lead in the Electoral College tally looks a mile wide and an inch deep.\u00a0 A couple more weeks of momentum and the narrative could look very different.<\/p>\n

If Romney can show before the end of August that two big Democratic states — say, Wisoncsin and Pennsylvania — are really up for grabs, this thing finally becomes a nail biter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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