{"id":15005,"date":"2015-10-19T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15005"},"modified":"2015-10-19T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:20:01","slug":"whos-up-whos-down-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/10\/19\/whos-up-whos-down-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"who&#8217;s up, who&#8217;s down, who cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/letters-from-the-october-26-2015-issue\/\">the Nation<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Eric Alterman devoted 10 column inches to making a pretty good case for Bernie Sanders for president [\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inequality in Campaign Mode,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sept. 29\/Oct. 5]. Yet he concluded that Sanders will not win the Democratic nomination, much less the election, and can only put heat on the likely nominee to follow his lead by addressing the concerns of the majority of voters. Only? Those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel the Bern are talking long shot or less; those who do are on the streets, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Ken Sandin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Damned political commentary who does not&#8230; succumb&#8230; to mindless&#8230; political sloganeering in deference to a candidate meted out by political commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Feel the Bern?\u00c2\u00a0 NO&#8230; NO&#8230; NO&#8230; F<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/10\/17\/449218249\/-memeoftheweek-the-strange-sad-case-of-feelthechafe\">EEL THE CHAFE<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 No&#8230; supporters&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/columnists\/peter_gelzinis\/2015\/10\/gelzinis_cianci_rips_chafee_prez_bid\">lining up all over<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Also&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/jimmy-fallon-coins-feel-the-chafe-slogan-for-lincoln-chafee\/\">incorrect headline<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating in the exchange in the &#8220;big debate&#8221;, Sanders brings up Denmark, Hillary Clinton goes for the &#8220;America.\u00c2\u00a0 And America don&#8217;t do Socialism.\u00c2\u00a0 We do Theodore Rooseveltian Curb Capitalism Excess!!!'&#8221;&#8230; or, something like that.\u00c2\u00a0 Meeting up a message herein: Bernie Sanders is, in terms of image, too far to the left of the Democratic electorate, not in the &#8220;head versus heart&#8221;, but in their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>And what of Jim Webb &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2015\/10\/jim-webb-considering-running-as-an-independent\">taking his marbles and going home<\/a>&#8230; Or to &#8220;Independent Land&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Will he run with Lincoln Chafee as his running mate?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/lawrence-lessig-totally-stupid-resign-presidency_5622acdde4b02f6a900c9bad\">Lawrence Lessig news<\/a>&#8230; already back-pedaling from past promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter in the Nation&#8230; Eric Alterman devoted 10 column inches to making a pretty good case for Bernie Sanders for president [\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inequality in Campaign Mode,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sept. 29\/Oct. 5]. Yet he concluded that Sanders will not win the Democratic nomination, much less the election, and can only put heat on the likely nominee to follow [&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-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","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=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}