{"id":5025,"date":"2012-09-07T06:52:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:52:48","slug":"bill-versus-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=5025","title":{"rendered":"Bill versus Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Krauthammer-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> The conservative commentator put the finger on Mitt&#8217;s problem. <\/p>\n<p>Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points behind Mitt Romney. Why is he tied? The empathy gap. On \u201ccaring about average people,\u201d Obama wins by 22 points. Maintaining that gap was a principal goal of the Democratic convention. It\u2019s the party\u2019s only hope of winning in November.<\/p>\n<p>Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points behind Mitt Romney. Why is he tied? The empathy gap. On \u201ccaring about average people,\u201d Obama wins by 22 points. Maintaining that gap was a principal goal of the Democratic convention. It\u2019s the party\u2019s only hope of winning in November.<\/p>\n<p>George H. W. Bush, Romney-like in aloofness, was once famously handed a staff cue card that read: \u201cMessage: I care.\u201d That was supposed to be speech guidance. Bush read the card. Out loud.<\/p>\n<p><b>Not surprisingly, he lost to Bill Clinton, a man who lives to care, who feels your pain better than you do \u2014 or at least makes you think so. In politics, that\u2019s a trivial distinction.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative commentator put the finger on Mitt&#8217;s problem. Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=5025\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Krauthammer.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}