{"id":472,"date":"2008-10-15T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T11:02:57","slug":"update-obama-now-up-by-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Update: Obama now up by 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This according to a new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/15poll.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\"> CBS\/New York Times poll<\/a>. Why?\u00a0 For the precise reasons I&#8217;ve been writing: McCain has managed to dirty himself with the mud he and his running mate have been throwing.\u00a0 The funny thing is that the mud just keeps on coming.\u00a0 The next trick will be a new message from the McCain campaign.\u00a0 We call that &#8220;too little too late&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now some people are talking about The So-Called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bradley_effect\">Bradley Effect<\/a>\u201d, where Tom Bradley ran against <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Deukmejian\">George Deukmejian<\/a> for California Governor and peaked too early and lost.\u00a0 This should not be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiffs.com\/wisdom.html#BradleyBlunder\">Tom Bradley Blunder<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiffs.com\">Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool<\/a>.\u00a0 In the case of the Bradley Blunder, one of the invitational entrants mysteriously requested that Tom Bradley&#8217;s name be struck from her list of people to die.\u00a0 It later emerged that she had met the former mayer of Los Angeles and liked him.\u00a0 The lesson: never meet people who you bet money will die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This according to a new CBS\/New York Times poll. Why?\u00a0 For the precise reasons I&#8217;ve been writing: McCain has managed to dirty himself with the mud he and his running mate have been throwing.\u00a0 The funny thing is that the mud just keeps on coming.\u00a0 The next trick will be a new message from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update: Obama now up by 14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[197,131,130,196],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-dead-pool","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-stiffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}