{"id":7125,"date":"2012-04-03T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2012-04-03T02:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T02:00:39","slug":"a-bitter-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-bitter-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bitter Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/story\/2012-04-01\/swing-states-poll\/53930684\/1\">Via <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MILWAUKEE \u2013 President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation&#8217;s dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side&#8230;In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney&#8217;s support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Utterly predictable. Probably disastrous. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Santorum-really1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Santorum-really1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Santorum, really\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Santorum-really1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Santorum-really1.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via USA Today: MILWAUKEE \u2013 President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation&#8217;s dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side&#8230;In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-bitter-pill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[740,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7163,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}