{"id":975,"date":"2003-12-24T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/uncertainty-in-us-2004-election\/"},"modified":"2003-12-24T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T16:46:11","slug":"uncertainty-in-us-2004-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/uncertainty-in-us-2004-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainty in US 2004 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgsrv.canadaeast.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=*&amp;Date=20031224&amp;Category=CPW&amp;ArtNo=17542024&amp;Ref=AR&amp;AvisData=CE&amp;MaxW=200\" alt=\"Bush grins\"\/><a title=\"canadaeast.com - CP World News\" href=\"http:\/\/canadaeast.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20031224\/CPW\/17542024\">Bush&#8217;s re-election seen linked to state of U.S. economy and security in Iraq<\/a> BETH GORHAM<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s anything shaping U.S. politics these days, it&#8217;s <b>uncertainty<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With a $200 million campaign chest and the incumbency, it is Bush&#8217;s election to lose.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s hard to say how the American public&#8217;s love him or hate him attitudes will play out in <b>a country so evenly divided<\/b> that Cook&#8217;s public opinion surveys find most months that the two parties are within a point of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Cook predicts a 90 per cent to 95 per cent chance that Republicans will hold onto the House of Representatives and an 80 per cent chance that they will keep a majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;But the presidential race, I&#8217;m increasingly convinced, is just going to be very, very, very, very close,&#8221;<\/b> he says.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;It would be very difficult for it to be any closer than last time, but I think it&#8217;s going to be very close.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s re-election seen linked to state of U.S. economy and security in Iraq BETH GORHAM If there&#8217;s anything shaping U.S. politics these days, it&#8217;s uncertainty. &#8230; With a $200 million campaign chest and the incumbency, it is Bush&#8217;s election to lose. And it&#8217;s hard to say how the American public&#8217;s love him or hate him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/uncertainty-in-us-2004-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncertainty in US 2004 Election<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}