{"id":13261,"date":"2012-03-02T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2012-03-02T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:45:21","slug":"obama-reelection-far-from-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13261\/obama-reelection-far-from-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Reelection Far From Certain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsweek\u2019s Robert Samuelson<\/a> on what the MSM\u2019s conventional wisdom may be missing with all its Obama-the-invincible chatter:<\/p>\n

All in all, the conventional wisdom seems compelling. As a card-carrying member of the mainstream media — a group that creates and sustains the conventional wisdom — I’m inclined to accept it. And yet there’s one conspicuous gap in the-election-is-already-over story: the polls. While the Republicans have been destroying each other and embarrassing themselves, the polls for a general election should have shown a collapse in Republican support. They haven’t — at least so far.<\/p>\n

Go to Real Clear Politics (www.realclearpolitics.com)<\/a> for the latest figures. The average of the polls it follows shows (for the period from Feb. 10 to Feb. 29) Obama beating Romney by 4.6 percentage points (49 percent to 44.4 percent<\/a>). Obama’s margin of victory over Santorum is slightly larger (49.3 percent to 44.2 percent<\/a>).<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

So it’s a puzzle. Logic and most evidence suggest the election is over. But the polls seem to dissent. Could it be that the real story is that Obama’s not a shoo-in even when he should be?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsweek\u2019s Robert Samuelson on what the MSM\u2019s conventional wisdom may be missing with all its Obama-the-invincible chatter: All in all, the conventional wisdom seems compelling. As a card-carrying member of the mainstream media — a group that creates and sustains the conventional wisdom — I’m inclined to accept it. And yet there’s one conspicuous gap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,160,1084,3396],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-santorum","tag-robert-samuelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13266,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions\/13266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}