{"id":17966,"date":"2019-02-16T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2019-02-16T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:40:10","slug":"exploratory-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/02\/16\/exploratory-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"exploratory committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On William Weld, we get comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d19d5524b35d4abbaf4f1869a84c965c\">like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Bush and Jimmy Carter lost their bids for a second term after facing challenges from inside their party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 And Obama successfully fended off his primary challenges &#8212; John Wolfe, Jr. and Keith Russell Judd, and Jim Rogers &#8212; all of whom garnered a hefty percentage round about the Appalachian &#8212; Ozarks fault-line.<\/p>\n<p>They did better than William Weld will do.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m tempted to ask why he skipped out on his entres to the Libertarian Party, before realizing: whatever his politics can be described as (the Republicanism that gets Republicans elected governor in Massachusetts, that they then have to denounce in order to do anything nationally?) &#8212; it isn&#8217;t Libertarian.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what Judd&#8217;s exploratory findings showed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On William Weld, we get comments like this: Bush and Jimmy Carter lost their bids for a second term after facing challenges from inside their party. Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 And Obama successfully fended off his primary challenges &#8212; John Wolfe, Jr. and Keith Russell Judd, and Jim Rogers &#8212; all of whom garnered a hefty percentage round [&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-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","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=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17967,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}