{"id":3504,"date":"2010-04-19T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2010-04-19T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T06:41:16","slug":"paul-obama-neck-and-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/paul-obama-neck-and-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul & Obama neck and neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"snapshot-2010-04-17-16-04-35\"<\/p>\n

This article was a pleasant shock to me, but polling shows that a race for president with Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama would be very close.<\/p>\n

I support Ron Paul on many issues (taxes, life, limited role of gov’t) yet we part ways on many (drugs, gambling), however, this poll is reflective that Americans definitely want a 180\u00b0 turn. BO is hands down the coolest<\/em> of the two, but it looks like the cool factor<\/em> isn’t carrying him any longer.<\/p>\n

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is \u2013 virtually dead even.<\/p>\n

A new Rasmussen Reports<\/a> national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This poll is evident that Republicans must abandon this misbelief that we can only win back the White House by nominating a moderate. How about\u00a0DeMint 2012?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article was a pleasant shock to me, but polling shows that a race for president with Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama would be very close. I support Ron Paul on many issues (taxes, life, limited role of gov’t) yet we part ways on many (drugs, gambling), however, this poll is reflective that Americans definitely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}