{"id":3134,"date":"2008-10-19T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/19\/update-on-bob-conleys-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:50:00","slug":"update-on-bob-conleys-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/19\/update-on-bob-conleys-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Bob Conley&#8217;s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love the campaign of a long-shot candidate with no real ties to his political party.\u00c2\u00a0 From the news down in South Carolina.:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0Bob Conley, who is challenging <span style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\" id=\"lw_1224460057_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/span> (R-SC) for the seat, said he&#8217;s holding his opponent&#8217;s feet to the fire in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a group of roughly 10 gathered at Bobby&#8217;s Bar-B-Q Buffet sponsored by the <span style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\" id=\"lw_1224460057_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Aiken Ron Paul Campaign<\/span> for Liberty, Conley wasted no time in getting down to the issues, chief of which he said was Graham&#8217;s support of &#8220;so-called&#8221; <span style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none\" id=\"lw_1224460057_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">free trade agreements<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why could this writer not have simply counted to get a better representation of &#8220;roughly ten people&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Further forecasting:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Graham offered assurances that the $700 billion <span id=\"lw_1224460174_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Wall Street rescue<\/span> package he voted for would work.<br \/>\nBut Mr. Conley predicted the <span style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\" id=\"lw_1224460174_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Dow Jones industrial average<\/span> is heading to 3,000, about a third of its current mark, as the <span id=\"lw_1224460174_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">federal intervention<\/span> adds to inflation and the <span style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none\" id=\"lw_1224460174_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">national debt<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3 thousand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love the campaign of a long-shot candidate with no real ties to his political party.\u00c2\u00a0 From the news down in South Carolina.: \u00c2\u00a0Bob Conley, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for the seat, said he&#8217;s holding his opponent&#8217;s feet to the fire in the election. Speaking to a group of roughly [&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-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}