{"id":38,"date":"2008-08-04T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/mccain-pulling-ahead.html"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:58:06","slug":"mccain-pulling-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/mccain-pulling-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain Pulling Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While one new poll has Obama beating McCain among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/03\/AR2008080301969.html?nav=hcmodule\">white working class voters<\/a> (remember, the ones Obama was supposedly unable to attract), another poll has McCain pulling ahead nationally.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/08\/for_first_time_mccain_edges_ah.php\">TalkingPointsMemo.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In short, the recent mudslinging in the campaign may well have played in McCain&#8217;s favor. Obama has not dipped from his usual range, but it appears that some undecideds have been pushed into McCain&#8217;s column for now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While one new poll has Obama beating McCain among white working class voters (remember, the ones Obama was supposedly unable to attract), another poll has McCain pulling ahead nationally. From TalkingPointsMemo.com: In short, the recent mudslinging in the campaign may well have played in McCain&#8217;s favor. Obama has not dipped from his usual range, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-08"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>McCain Pulling Ahead? - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/mccain-pulling-ahead.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McCain Pulling Ahead? - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While one new poll has Obama beating McCain among white working class voters (remember, the ones Obama was supposedly unable to attract), another poll has McCain pulling ahead nationally. 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