{"id":337,"date":"2008-09-03T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-09-03T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:04:15","slug":"all_you_need_to_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s the Atwater offense.  Just remember 1988 and you&#8217;ll know how it&#8217;s going to go.  By those lights, Palin makes <em>much<\/em> more sense: her job isn&#8217;t to win over disaffected Hillary voters or persuadable moderates, it&#8217;s to light a fire under the base and keep them at a steady froth and hope that turnout is enough to make up the difference.  That&#8217;s what Quayle ended up doing, and that seems to have worked out OK at the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt might be enough.  Then again, it might not.  Problem is, you don&#8217;t know how many of the Perot 19% will eventually walk back to the GOP and how many will stick with the Ds over the economic issues.  In years past I would say that the Perot vote is almost 2-to-1 Republican, but given the changes in economic positions over the last 16 years, I think that independent fiscal conservatives who are ambivalent at best about the social stuff will break hard for the Democrats this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToo close to call at this point.  I wouldn&#8217;t put too much faith in polls until the end of September or so, and even then&#8230;grain of salt.  Nobody knows what the ground game will produce, especially if it all turns on get-out-the-vote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy the way, the night of a convention speech is a SUCKTASTIC time to be setting up an over-the-air antenna for your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Atwater offense. Just remember 1988 and you&#8217;ll know how it&#8217;s going to go. By those lights, Palin makes much more sense: her job isn&#8217;t to win over disaffected Hillary voters or persuadable moderates, it&#8217;s to light a fire under the base and keep them at a steady froth and hope that turnout is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All you need to know&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}