{"id":23,"date":"2008-09-08T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/09\/the-palin-bounce.html"},"modified":"2008-09-08T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T06:21:20","slug":"the-palin-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/09\/the-palin-bounce.html","title":{"rendered":"The Palin bounce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/pollster.com\/blogs\/\">batch of polls over the weekend<\/a>&nbsp; show that McCain gained serious ground after the RNC convention and Palin&#8217;s speech\/martyrdom:<\/p>\n<p>USAToday \/ Gallup 9\/5-7\/08<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/election2008\/2008-09-07-poll_N.htm\">McCain 54, Obama 44)<\/a><br \/>\n(8\/23: Obama 48, McCain 45)<\/p>\n<p>Zogby Interactive 9\/5-6\/08<b><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1548\">McCain 50, Obama 46<\/a><br \/>\n(8\/30: McCain 47, Obama 45)<\/p>\n<p>Gallup Poll 9\/4-6\/08<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/110050\/Gallup-Daily-McCain-Moves-Ahead-48-45.aspx\">McCain 48, Obama 45<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen Reports 9\/4-6\/08<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/general_election_match_up_history\">McCain 48, Obama 48<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOver at Nation-Building, I argue that <a href=\"http:\/\/dean2004.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/batch-of-polls-over-weekend-show-that.html\">this has nothing to do with Palin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A batch of polls over the weekend&nbsp; show that McCain gained serious ground after the RNC convention and Palin&#8217;s speech\/martyrdom: USAToday \/ Gallup 9\/5-7\/08McCain 54, Obama 44) (8\/23: Obama 48, McCain 45) Zogby Interactive 9\/5-6\/08 McCain 50, Obama 46 (8\/30: McCain 47, Obama 45) Gallup Poll 9\/4-6\/08 McCain 48, Obama 45 Rasmussen Reports 9\/4-6\/08McCain 48,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,70,69],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purple-politics","tag-59","tag-mccain","tag-palin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Palin bounce? 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}