{"id":53608,"date":"2023-04-21T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=53608"},"modified":"2023-04-21T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:11:36","slug":"sizing-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/04\/21\/sizing-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"sizing the race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us see.  Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, As a Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Larry Elder are all in it to win it.  Ron Desantis and Chris Sununu are waiting around along with I guess Mike Pence and Chris Christie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Biden, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Marianne Williamson are in it.  Joe Manchin has amused people on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a curious question on Biden in the primaries.  There exists apolitical effect, evident in 2012with fake candidates but also seen in other years with real candidates, of a blind &#8220;screw this&#8221; vote by registered Democrats who are not Democrats.  So West Virginia votes 40 plus percent for a &#8212; mullet headed prisoner.  Biden is a bizarre figure in various ways &#8212; and the mass of voters who associate his party with things that do not interest or inform them along the Appalachia Belt &#8212; drag queen story hours and the like &#8212; have only increased.  Can Kennedy Jr beat Trump in West Virginia?  The biggest West Virginia primary victory for the Kennedy clan since Kennedy took Humphrey in 1960!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us see. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, As a Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Larry Elder are all in it to win it. Ron Desantis and Chris Sununu are waiting around along with I guess Mike Pence and Chris Christie. Joe Biden, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Marianne Williamson are in it. Joe Manchin [&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-53608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608","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=53608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53610,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions\/53610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}