{"id":15789,"date":"2016-09-02T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15789"},"modified":"2016-09-02T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:36:38","slug":"the-third-party-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/09\/02\/the-third-party-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"the third party spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiasco meets Jill Stein campaign, as she arrives in the wrong city<\/a> for a speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Was aiming for Columbus, Ohio; had to make do in Cleveland instead.<\/p>\n

Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Ohio.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly not an adherent to that “targeted campaign outside the swing states” that so enthralled the Green Party’s 2004 run.<\/p>\n

The good news about this snafu is that it’s about the only way Jill Stein will get any media attention… other than your “liberal lean-ers trying to scare you away from voting for her<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Why I suspect Gary Johnson, who’s reportedly holding onto his half a dozen or ten percentage points pretty well, won’t land there by election day:\u00c2\u00a0 somehow has to burst onto some attention out of his underground bunker… The campaign is to try to get to 15 by Debate time… so, I suppose William Weld can kick Mike Pence and Tim Kaine’s butt in the vice presidential debate.<\/p>\n

Meantime, I have to ask… as Washington State’s Evan McMullin runs about and picks up the endorsement of a former senator from Washington State (but no current Senator — isn’t Nebraska’s Ben Stasse supposed to say something?) — I want to know who his running mate is.\u00c2\u00a0 Arguably I have no reason to care — this campaign strikes me as particularly pointless and ill-designed.<\/p>\n

Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 The Reform Party’s still kicking in Montana<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiasco meets Jill Stein campaign, as she arrives in the wrong city for a speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Was aiming for Columbus, Ohio; had to make do in Cleveland instead. Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Ohio.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly not an adherent to that “targeted campaign outside the swing states” that so enthralled the Green Party’s 2004 run. The good news about this snafu […]<\/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-15789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789","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=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15790,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}