{"id":14941,"date":"2015-09-25T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14941"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:38:26","slug":"2016-presidential-campaign-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/09\/25\/2016-presidential-campaign-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Presidential Campaign Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripr.org\/post\/lincoln-chafee-applauds-release-38-studios-documents\">Linocln Chafee <\/a>&#8212; an issue of concern in native Rhode Island resolved, apparently in his favor, and against noted Republican and baseball hall of famer Curt Schilling.\u00c2\u00a0 W<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/news\/gov.-lincoln-chafees-38-studios-deposition-and-exhibits\">hat&#8217;s it mean<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4049459\/poll-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-new-hampshire\/\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> now leads Hillary Clinton by double digits in New Hampshire.\u00c2\u00a0 But how is he doing compared to Howard Dean against John Kerry circa September 2003?<\/p>\n<p>If elected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/ted-cruz-vows-to-introduce-ayatollah-to-72-virgins-if-hes-elected-president\/\">Ted Cruz<\/a> is going to kill the Ayatollah.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe he will literally have him meet 72 virgins?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2015\/09\/428866-bobby-jindal-president-obama-lied-pope-francis\/\">Bobby Jindal<\/a> is upset because &#8230; <em>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbyjindal.com\/jindal-president-obama-lied-to-pope-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">press release<\/a> from the Louisiana Republican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0campaign, the presidential candidate thinks Obama lied when he told Francis that Americans are free to live and practice their religion.\u00c2\u00a0Specifically, Obama\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2015\/09\/23\/transcript-president-barack-obama-greets-pope-francis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">told the pope<\/a> that America stands with him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in defense of religious liberty,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jindal said <\/em>&#8212; and then we jump over to the case of the Kentucky judge who won&#8217;t sanction secular marriage laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Carson<\/strong> &#8216;s comments about not wanting a Muslim president gets the retort of &#8220;Okay, Mr. Seventh-Day Adventist&#8221;&#8230; and the relevant question&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/is-america-ready-for-a-scientologist-pre\">When Will America be Ready for A Scientologist President<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/jeb-bush-begins-embrace-last-name-campaign-trail-n433091\">Jeb Bush<\/a> has decided to dump the exclamation mark and go ahead and run with the Bush as his last name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/politics\/new-jersey\/chris-christie\/2015\/09\/24\/christie-polls-fox-quinnipiac\/72739534\/\">Chris Christie<\/a> is excited about picking up the support that had been going to now outgoing presidential hopeful Scott Walker&#8230; which is, oh, 1 point something percent?<\/p>\n<p>People Magazine has a neat little fluff piece about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/carly-fiorina-republican-gop-presidential-candidate-family\">Carly Fiorina<\/a> you don&#8217;t know&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I can feel my brain rotting just glancing at it.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.\u00c2\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3246511\/Stench-death-Rand-Paul-s-campaign-warn-Republican-insiders-smart-money-two-rans-quit-next.html\">Rand Paul<\/a><\/em><em>&#8216;s campaign has the &#8216;stench of death&#8217; around it, one strategist with senior level experience on a presidential campaign said, and another questioned the depth of his war chest<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, he&#8217;s apparently trying to shore up the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/Rand_Paul_presidential_candidate_gun_rights\">Liberty&#8221; voter<\/a>, which reading this article seems to mean essentially &#8220;gun nut&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/huckabee-targets-doritos-over-lgbt-friendly-chips\/\">Mike Huckabee <\/a>versus Frito Lay over rainbow doritos, due to sponsorship of one time door licker Dan Savage.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/jesse-ventura-hammers-mike-huckabee-i-think-that-he-wants-us-to-become-the-middle-east\/\">Jesse Ventura speaks out against Huckabee<\/a>&#8230; because, why not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/09\/24\/martin_omalley_unloads_hillary_is_a_specialist_at_vaguely_saying_things\/\">Martin O&#8217;Malle<\/a>y is roughly right about Hillary Clinton. &#8230; &#8220;a specialist at vaguely saying things&#8221;&#8230; Good luck at topping her, though.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Tom Brady support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/cauldron\/2015\/09\/25\/tom-brady-patriots-donald-trump-president-hat\">Donald Trump<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linocln Chafee &#8212; an issue of concern in native Rhode Island resolved, apparently in his favor, and against noted Republican and baseball hall of famer Curt Schilling.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s it mean? Bernie Sanders now leads Hillary Clinton by double digits in New Hampshire.\u00c2\u00a0 But how is he doing compared to Howard Dean against John Kerry circa [&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-14941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941","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=14941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14945,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions\/14945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}