{"id":940,"date":"2012-09-26T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/26\/ohio-ohio-ohio"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:39:00","slug":"ohio-ohio-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Ohio, Ohio, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Back to the polls.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re beginning to show a trend, which is that President Obama is looking more like a lock for re-election. I harken back again to the RealClearPolitics poll average. Today, Obama ticked up to 4 percent over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look ahead to next week, to the first of three presidential joint appearances. Romney\u2019s must score a \u201cThere you go again\u201d moment against Obama if he expects a shot at capturing this election. Don\u2019t look for the president to expose himself to such a thing the way Jimmy Carter did against Ronald Reagan back in 1980.<\/p>\n

If the president fends off Romney and scores some hits of his own \u2013 and he\u2019ll have plenty of ammo to fire at the challenger \u2013 then we might see the beginning of the end of Romney\u2019s White House quest.<\/p>\n

Oh, and what about Ohio? Remember how the late Tim Russert declared \u201cFlorida, Florida, Florida\u201d when handicapping how the 2000 race would go down? I think the Buckeye State is this election\u2019s Florida, meaning that it all turns right there. Republicans need it to win; Democrats can win without it. Polls are showing Obama with a lead of as much as 10 points in the Buckeye State, give or take a point or two.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I think might occur Election Night. If the TV networks call Ohio early for the president, we might be looking at a blowout. Ohio will be among the first states to close its polling places, giving the networks time to consider whether it\u2019s too close to call or whether they can declare it for either candidate. If it\u2019s a nail-biter, look for a long night of suspense. <\/p>\n

But if it goes early for Obama \u2013 given his apparent lead in the polls and even more commanding lead in the Electoral College \u2013 then it\u2019s lights out in a hurry.<\/p>\n

But hey, it\u2019s six weeks away. How many political lifetimes is that?<\/p>\n\n

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Back to the polls. They\u2019re beginning to show a trend, which is that President Obama is looking more like a lock for re-election. I harken back again to the RealClearPolitics poll average. Today, Obama ticked up to 4 percent over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Let\u2019s look ahead to next week, to the first of three … Continue reading Ohio, Ohio, Ohio<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}