{"id":2870,"date":"2008-04-24T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/24\/the-campaign-continues-tediously\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:18:18","slug":"the-campaign-continues-tediously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/24\/the-campaign-continues-tediously\/","title":{"rendered":"The Campaign Continues.  Tediously."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I can start a sort of daily tab pegging the atrocities of the Hillary Clinton campaign.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The latest is watching her assert that she has surpassed Barack Obama in the popular vote total&#8230; if you include, as she does, the phantom primary in Florida and the phantomer primary in Michigan.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter she excludes the non-committed, those wacky 45 percent of non-named Obama delegate voters floating around after Obama followed the rules of taking his name off the ballot and Clinton did not.<\/p>\n<p>While at one time I had thought that the halving of the Florida primary result would result in the result an actual contest would provide, and thus was a good idea, I never quite knew what a theoretically just solution in Michigan might be.\u00c2\u00a0 I would have thought Obama would have won Michigan, but then you are confronted by the worst economy in the United States with a good rural population of bitter people who cling to their guns and religion.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama proposes to call it even.\u00c2\u00a0 Charming, he.<\/p>\n<p>After a spell, I come to the idea of calling Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bluff &#8212; not even going to any new revoting total, and ratifying the results.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever Florida gives her, and the &#8212; I think it&#8217;s that 55 &#8211; 45 split in Michigan.\u00c2\u00a0 Providing Hillary Clinton with another cut in a dozen or two delegates.\u00c2\u00a0 To be swamped out by the Super-delegates as they trend toward Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 With the result being, scratching the head regarding what she was trying to do with that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I can start a sort of daily tab pegging the atrocities of the Hillary Clinton campaign.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The latest is watching her assert that she has surpassed Barack Obama in the popular vote total&#8230; if you include, as she does, the phantom primary in Florida and the phantomer primary in Michigan.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter she excludes [&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-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}