{"id":73,"date":"2008-09-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/09\/16\/mccain-and-palin-push-into-blue-america\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:30:00","slug":"mccain-and-palin-push-into-blue-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/09\/16\/mccain-and-palin-push-into-blue-america\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain and Palin push into blue America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the presidential campaign started, Republicans were on the defensive and Democrats were talking about pushing beyond their usual comfort zones.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, that meant targeting states like Colorado, Virginia, and possibly even Montana or North Dakota. <\/p>\n<p>That effort isn&#8217;t dead:  Barack Obama is still running dead-even with John McCain in Colorado and Virginia, states that have voted Republican in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>But John McCain has also reversed the game-plan, pushing deep into Obama&#8217;s territory. <\/p>\n<p>With the help of Sarah Palin&#8217;s surprising appeal, the GOP ticket has fought its way to par in Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are only five points down in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>Critics question the McCain campaign&#8217;s tactics for achieving those results:  negative campaigning that even some conservatives have cringed at.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that the go-ugly message has worked, even in states that were considered hostile to the Republican message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the presidential campaign started, Republicans were on the defensive and Democrats were talking about [&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\/73"}],"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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}