{"id":1053,"date":"2012-08-15T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-08-15T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:14:55","slug":"romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/15\/romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, Obama Fates Hinge on Shrinking Sliver of Undecideds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=14830&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>They make up only a sliver of the electorate, roughly 4 to 7 percent.  We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking 1 million to 2 million people at the most, in just a handful of  critical states. They tend to be younger, female, and clueless about  politics.<\/p>\n<p>They are the undecided. Better yet, they could be the deciders\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe  voters who pick the winner of the presidential election in an  increasingly polarized environment. Some polls suggest there are fewer  fence-sitters in 2012 than in recent elections, yet this race will see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2012\/08\/2012-election-will-be-costliest-yet.html\">record-setting spending of at least $2.5 billion<\/a> by the campaigns, national parties, and other political groups. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much of what the campaigns do is geared toward getting the attention  of these indifferent and far-flung individuals. Obama and soon-to-be  Republican nominee Mitt Romney will spend nearly all of their time in  less than a dozen states that are truly up for grabs. Their television  ads are carefully designed to win over the wishy-washy and the  disengaged. Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FBorRZnqtMo\">Obama calmly appealing to undecided voters in one oft-running ad<\/a>: &#8220;Sometimes politics can seem very small. But the choice you face couldn&#8217;t be bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds-20120815?page=1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds-20120815?page=1\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds-20120815?page=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They make up only a sliver of the electorate, roughly 4 to 7 percent. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking 1 million to 2 million people at the most, in just a handful of critical states. They tend to be younger, female, and clueless about politics. They are the undecided. Better yet, they could be the deciders\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe voters who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/15\/romney-obama-fates-hinge-on-shrinking-sliver-of-undecideds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney, Obama Fates Hinge on Shrinking Sliver of Undecideds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[492,114,6],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-beth-reinhard","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-gZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}