{"id":14646,"date":"2015-05-05T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14646"},"modified":"2015-05-05T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:57:33","slug":"contemplating-2-new-entrants-in-the-presidential-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/05\/05\/contemplating-2-new-entrants-in-the-presidential-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"contemplating 2 new entrants in the presidential derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over under for Bernie Sanders.\u00c2\u00a0 Examining his &#8220;Liberty Union&#8221; party era voting totals.<\/p>\n<p>United States Senate special election in Vermont, 1972<br \/>\nBernie Sanders (Liberty Union) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1,571 (2.2%)<\/p>\n<p>Vermont gubernatorial election, 1972<br \/>\nBernie Sanders (LU) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2,175 (1.1%)<\/p>\n<p>United States Senate election in Vermont, 1974<br \/>\nBernie Sanders (LU) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5,901 (4.13%)<\/p>\n<p>Vermont gubernatorial election, 1976<br \/>\nBernie Sanders (LU) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 11,317 (6.1%)<\/p>\n<p>What states will he beat out the 6.1 percent thresh-hold?<\/p>\n<p>I also note Carly Fiorina has thrown her hat in the ring.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2004, the Democrats &#8212; wanting to blunt the impact of Al Sharpton being in the race &#8212; brought in Carol Mosley Braun.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if the Republicans urged Carly Fiorina in for some gender political purposes in getting some attacks against Hillary Clinton out that would no suffice from a man.<\/p>\n<p>Also, should be &#8220;in it to win it&#8221; &#8212; so to speak &#8212; can we please get a reprise of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2015\/05\/04\/ousted_hp_headdemon_sheep_vanquishe.php\">Demon Sheep&#8221; ad <\/a>she ran to win the Republican nomination for California governor &#8212; maybe have a whole zoo full of demon animals for each of her opponents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over under for Bernie Sanders.\u00c2\u00a0 Examining his &#8220;Liberty Union&#8221; party era voting totals. United States Senate special election in Vermont, 1972 Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1,571 (2.2%) Vermont gubernatorial election, 1972 Bernie Sanders (LU) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2,175 (1.1%) United States Senate election in Vermont, 1974 Bernie Sanders (LU) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5,901 (4.13%) Vermont gubernatorial election, 1976 [&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-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","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=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14648,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}