{"id":15186,"date":"2012-07-23T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:55:32","slug":"obama-seems-to-think-he-can-court-military-vote-but-poll-shows-overwhelming-support-for-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15186\/obama-seems-to-think-he-can-court-military-vote-but-poll-shows-overwhelming-support-for-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Seems to Think He Can Court Military Vote, But Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Romney."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Barack Obama courts veterans with a speech in Reno, Nevada to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.\u00a0 According to one <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443295404577543432146052066.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, Obama seems to think that he can improve on the 44% support he received in 2008 against celebrated veteran John McCain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new initiative is the latest effort by Mr. Obama to focus on  veterans, a group he addresses frequently in both official White House  events and on the campaign trail. In 2008, exit polls showed that 15% of  all voters had served in the military, and Mr. Obama won 44% of their  votes, an improvement from Democrat John Kerry&#8217;s performance in 2004.  This year, the Obama campaign believes he may have a better chance with  this group, in part because he is running against former Gov. Mitt  Romney, who like Mr. Obama never served in the military, unlike his 2008  opponent, Sen. John McCain, a war hero.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a new survey, however, this appears to be yet another electoral dud for Obama.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2012\/election_2012_presidential_election\/july_2012\/among_military_veterans_romney_59_obama_35\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmussen<\/a> reports that among military veterans, Obama trails Romney 59% to 35%.\u00a0 Perhaps at some point Obama will recognize the inverse relationship between his support among veterans and the fact that they&#8217;re &#8220;a group he addresses frequently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, if it&#8217;s this bad for Obama now, imagine what might happen when Romney actually starts matching Obama&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443295404577543364002286188.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1\" target=\"_blank\">spending burn rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Barack Obama courts veterans with a speech in Reno, Nevada to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.\u00a0 According to one report, Obama seems to think that he can improve on the 44% support he received in 2008 against celebrated veteran John McCain: The new initiative is the latest effort by Mr. Obama to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,342,24],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-military","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15193,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions\/15193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}