{"id":49,"date":"2011-02-03T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/does-larry-sabato-just-make-it-up\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:37:05","slug":"does-larry-sabato-just-make-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/does-larry-sabato-just-make-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Larry Sabato Just Make It Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received the latest Larry Sabato newsletter assessing Obama\u2019s reelection chances.&#160; I didn\u2019t get but a few sentences into it when I came across this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet presidents riding high\u2014such as Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2004\u2014often find themselves surrounded by good fortune. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/bushfav2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">look back at the polls in the months leading up to the 2004 election<\/a>, Bush\u2019s favorability ratings were often under 50%.&#160; That\u2019s riding high?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received the latest Larry Sabato newsletter assessing Obama\u2019s reelection chances.&#160; I didn\u2019t get but a few sentences into it when I came across this: Yet presidents riding high\u2014such as Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2004\u2014often find themselves surrounded by good fortune. Yet when you look&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/02\/03\/does-larry-sabato-just-make-it-up\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,20,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}