{"id":15408,"date":"2016-04-08T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2016-04-08T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:40:52","slug":"cruzs-asymmetrical-new-york-war-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/04\/08\/cruzs-asymmetrical-new-york-war-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz&#8217;s asymmetrical New York War-Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am fascinated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/04\/08\/cruz-new-york-wisconsin-fallon-meyers-wilmore-conan-colbert-noah-punchlines\/82793834\/\">Ted Cruz campaign slog through New York<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The premise of how he&#8217;s campaigning in New York is that Ted Cruz is searching about through districts in in New York with just about no Republicans, out of the delegate rules that give a candidate some delegates for winning congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/protester-tossed-ted-cruz-rally-bronx-article-1.2590708\">problem<\/a> is that these areas are right about the wheel-house of Ted Cruz&#8217;s anti &#8211; &#8220;New York Values&#8221; line.<\/p>\n<p>So what we get here is that human interest type story of political coverage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/04\/07\/ted-cruz-makes-the-rounds-and-matzo-in-brooklyn\/\">where Ted Cruz goes to eat matzo in Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, yep, there it is&#8230; put on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/amid-new-york-values-ted-cruz-hunts-delegates\">yarmulke<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if he manages to fish out what he&#8217;s aiming for here &#8212; the exciting phantom delegate search where a smidgeon of Republicans who shook his hand as he braved the surrounding New York Values &#8212; and salvages a coup from out of this looming Trump landslide on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am fascinated by the Ted Cruz campaign slog through New York.\u00c2\u00a0 The premise of how he&#8217;s campaigning in New York is that Ted Cruz is searching about through districts in in New York with just about no Republicans, out of the delegate rules that give a candidate some delegates for winning congressional districts. The [&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-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","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=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}