{"id":357,"date":"2008-08-29T06:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-09-04T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:56:18","slug":"good-speech-but-obama-still-wont-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/08\/29\/good-speech-but-obama-still-wont-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Good speech.  But Obama still won&#8217;t win."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <em>Just hours after I posted this entry McCain picked the first woman ever for a Republican Presidential ticket, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.\u00a0 Not certain if this is a plus or minus.\u00a0 She has no foreign policy experience. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was an inspiring, articulate and historic Democratic Presidential nomination speech. Possibly the best ever. And it was very Obama. And it convinced a lot of Democrats he will win. There was actually more real content to this Obama speech than any I&#8217;ve previously heard. Many Democrats are proud and feel there&#8217;s no way he can lose now because America will not tolerate &#8220;another four years of Bush-McCain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I almost feel sorry for those Democrats. Despite their unmatched, historical support for America&#8217;s first black candidate he most likely will not defeat McCain. And McCain did one of the most impressive things I&#8217;ve seen in a while. He ran an ad congratulating Obama on his historic achievement during the televised nomination acceptance. This move will solidify McCain&#8217;s support from the moderates and Independents who were on the fence about a vote for the Republican ticket. It was an impressive feat, but the issues still stand and the Republican party did not forfeit because of one good speech.<\/p>\n<p>Even without knowing McCain&#8217;s Vice Presidential selection as of this writing I can already tell that as the results of this election are tallied on Nov. 4th, 2008 one of two things will happen: Either the race will be as close as those in 2000 and 2004 with John McCain squeaking in and electoral victory or Obama will win by a landslide. There will be no landslide for McCain but I do not doubt the voting power of Republicans who watch silently\u00a0and have a solid historical record of turning out to vote. Unlike the new, young &#8220;small-d&#8221; Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Just hours after I posted this entry McCain picked the first woman ever for a Republican Presidential ticket, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.\u00a0 Not certain if this is a plus or minus.\u00a0 She has no foreign policy experience. It was an inspiring, articulate and historic Democratic Presidential nomination speech. Possibly the best ever. And it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/08\/29\/good-speech-but-obama-still-wont-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good speech.  But Obama still won&#8217;t win.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}