{"id":3709,"date":"2009-04-03T12:53:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2009-04-03T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:53:49","slug":"raw-political-calculations-of-iowa-court-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/04\/03\/raw-political-calculations-of-iowa-court-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"raw political calculations of Iowa Court Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, like &#8212; Ever &#8212; I think a gay marriage court ruling would end up benefiting Democratic electoral chances and throw a monkey wrench into Republican electoral strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 Iowa won&#8217;t be able to get a referendum for a constitutional amendment against this ruling and to sanctify &#8220;one woman and one man&#8221; until into 2012.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, considering the first in the nation Iowa Caucus dominated by the population that gave its nod to Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee, the news coming out of the first Republican State Nominating will be &#8220;Fill in the Blank Scary Guy&#8221; Wins.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe Sarah Palin?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the actual victor for the Republican Party who might deign to try to win the election in November\u00c2\u00a0might do well to go with the New Hampshire strategy, and skip Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, like &#8212; Ever &#8212; I think a gay marriage court ruling would end up benefiting Democratic electoral chances and throw a monkey wrench into Republican electoral strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 Iowa won&#8217;t be able to get a referendum for a constitutional amendment against this ruling and to sanctify &#8220;one woman and one man&#8221; until [&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-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}