{"id":35047,"date":"2012-10-11T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_as_race_tightens_the_electoral_map_still_favors_obama\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:14:45","slug":"npr_as_race_tightens_the_electoral_map_still_favors_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35047","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) As the 2012 Presidential Race Tightens, the Electoral Map Still Favors Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney may have seized the advantage in terms of poll numbers and momentum, but there&#8217;s one area where President Obama enjoys the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it&#8217;s the only area that counts: the Electoral College. Over the past 20 years, Republicans have had a much lower ceiling when it comes to electoral support, while Democrats have had a significantly higher floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Democrats start with a larger number of electoral votes in the bank,&#8221; says Daron Shaw, author of The Race to 270, a book about electoral strategy. That&#8217;s because while the election is still very much in the air, Obama can count on a larger store of electoral votes that are all but guaranteed to him than Romney can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2012\/10\/10\/162585850\/as-race-tightens-the-electoral-map-still-favors-obama\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney may have seized the advantage in terms of poll numbers and momentum, but there&#8217;s one area where President Obama enjoys the upper hand. In the end, it&#8217;s the only area that counts: the Electoral College. Over the past<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35047\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}