{"id":15852,"date":"2016-09-21T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:37:40","slug":"snippets-of-the-damnable-election-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/09\/21\/snippets-of-the-damnable-election-race\/","title":{"rendered":"snippets of the damnable election race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He came in<a href=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/national.php?year=2012&amp;minper=0&amp;f=0&amp;off=0&amp;elect=0\"> 10th in 2012<\/a>, and he is running again.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RichardDuncanForPresident2016\/\">Or so says his facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/21\/494854951\/donald-trump-jr-used-skittles-photo-without-permission-from-former-refugee\">Trump Jr. gets in trouble due to a Skittles photo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Herein is a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/21\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-jr-skittles.html?_r=0\">n attempt to put the problem of Trump kids into a political context<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/teamcoco.com\/video\/trump-candy-ads?playlist=featured-videos\">Conan O&#8217;brien gets it a little better<\/a>, though it veers into the arena of right wing politics Trump has strayed from.<\/p>\n<p>George Herbert Walker Bush just voted for Hillary Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeoutfitters.com\/blogs\/news\/confirmed-george-h-w-bush-is-voting-for-hillary-clinton\">tweeted the news<\/a>, than&#8230; er&#8230; untweeted?\u00c2\u00a0 The bottom half of the Internet reacts in a fury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/650065\/trump-campaign-manager-politely-mocks-bushes-over-expresidents-reported-hillary-vote\">A key point about the Trump response<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what is most disturbing about this report to me, Erin, is that someone divulged a private conversation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it doesn&#8217;t seem like it was meant for public consumption. And that&#8217;s always very bothersome to me.&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Private conversations are different than Democratic emails hacked by Russians and leaked online.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/19\/politics\/gary-johnson-bill-weld\/\">at least this tweet has been vetted a bit. Unlike the one about Bill Weld dropping out of the race<\/a> &#8212; wishful wistful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He came in 10th in 2012, and he is running again.\u00c2\u00a0 Or so says his facebook page. Trump Jr. gets in trouble due to a Skittles photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Herein is an attempt to put the problem of Trump kids into a political context.\u00c2\u00a0 Conan O&#8217;brien gets it a little better, though it veers into the arena [&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-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","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=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}