{"id":2516,"date":"2007-08-13T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/08\/13\/things-not-worth-paying-any-attention-to-yet-here-i-am\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:36:42","slug":"things-not-worth-paying-any-attention-to-yet-here-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/08\/13\/things-not-worth-paying-any-attention-to-yet-here-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Things not worth paying any attention to, yet here I am."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It probably is not worth mentioning the just taken-place Iowa Straw Poll &#8211; slash &#8211; Republican Primary, but one thing bothers me about the coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 It is found within this headline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2007\/08\/13\/iowa_straw_poll\/ \">Huckabee&#8217;s Surprise Second In Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See, it was a foregone conclusion that Mitt Romney would win &#8212; and he splurged to get his victory like nobody&#8217;s business.\u00c2\u00a0 But the question was who would come in second?\u00c2\u00a0 Would it be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Brownback, Tancredo, or Huckabee?\u00c2\u00a0 Giuliani and, mercifully McCain, were not a&#8217;participating.<br \/>\nAnd would it have been any less or more of a surprise if Tancredo or Brownback had taken the honors of second place?<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t a &#8220;surprise&#8221; hinge on something nobody could see coming?\u00c2\u00a0 Now if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cox2008.com\/cox\/\">John Cox had come in second<\/a>, THAT would have been a surprise!\u00c2\u00a0 (As it were, he received 40-some votes and came behind Tommy Thompson, who has just dropped out of the race&#8230; without anyone really ever noticing that he was ever in the race.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It probably is not worth mentioning the just taken-place Iowa Straw Poll &#8211; slash &#8211; Republican Primary, but one thing bothers me about the coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 It is found within this headline. Huckabee&#8217;s Surprise Second In Iowa. See, it was a foregone conclusion that Mitt Romney would win &#8212; and he splurged to get his victory [&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-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}