{"id":10015,"date":"2012-05-24T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T01:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:56:15","slug":"draft-john-wolfe-jr-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/05\/24\/draft-john-wolfe-jr-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft John Wolfe Jr for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thought about John Wolfe, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>He sounds better than former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, currently Top 1 if the Democrats feel able to take a stab at a Senate seat.\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s hard to fathom who else Tennessee Democrats have sitting on their bench.\u00c2\u00a0 (Someone with a profile like Harold Ford, Jr I imagine.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he can parlay a certain amount of fame in having come in second in the 2012 Democratic Primaries to jump-start past the &#8220;perennial candidate&#8221; role to take a stab against Lamar Alexander in 2014.\u00c2\u00a0 Not like anyone else is.\u00c2\u00a0 Stick an exclamation point after his first name.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the question might be: if Tennessee&#8217;s Democrats don&#8217;t really try to field a candidate, and Wolfe jumps in, would the Democratic Party brass in the state opt to run someone to stop a man who once marginally embarrassed the party standard-bearer? &#8212; something I suppose they wouldn&#8217;t do if Wolfe fit the profile of fourth place finisher Jim Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>And was this the man Ralph Nader had in mind when he claimed to have lined someone up to primary Obama?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thought about John Wolfe, Jr. He sounds better than former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, currently Top 1 if the Democrats feel able to take a stab at a Senate seat.\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s hard to fathom who else Tennessee Democrats have sitting on their bench.\u00c2\u00a0 (Someone with a profile like Harold Ford, Jr I imagine.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10019,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}