{"id":9035,"date":"2011-09-24T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2011-09-24T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:17:59","slug":"the-two-presidential-election-stories-that-will-resurface-again-and-again-with-no-real-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/09\/24\/the-two-presidential-election-stories-that-will-resurface-again-and-again-with-no-real-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"the two presidential election stories that will resurface again and again, with no real meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two stories about the Presidential contest come up once so often — whenever its principal actor puts out a press release, or whenever a columnist decides to point to it.<\/p>\n

Ralph Nader is searching for a Democratic Primary candidate to run against Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time I checked out of the story, Mike Gravel had announced that your contributions would throw his hat into the ring — this didn’t seem to go anywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Now Ralph Nader has upped the stakes and grabbed a bunch of signatories to his projec<\/a>t — progressive groups, a few former Democratic Senators from the 1970s, Corner West who has been engaging in an interesting debate that’s been sensationalized, the former editor of Harpers, and…<\/p>\n

Ross Perot’s 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate!\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I spot that man on the list.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Last I saw Pat Choate was 2000 and he was on Nightline defending Pat Buchanan, debating John Hagelin.\u00c2\u00a0 He apparently helped Buchanan into the Reform Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking him up on wikipedia, I do not know that Pat Choate is anything except against NAFTA — but, whatever.<\/p>\n

Well, I suppose that last one makes sense in the way that Ralph Nader made some positive noise about the positive influence on the body politik of one Sarah Palin.\u00c2\u00a0 Just… to annoy everyone, I suppose.<\/p>\n

The other big news is this Centrist Third Party contraption.\u00c2\u00a0 It received another crack from that David Broder — Thomas Friedman axis.\u00c2\u00a0 Their analysis doesn’t take into account the grappling of politicos to this “Non Partisan” edict.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re moving ahead — ballot by ballot… thinking that a Democratic Party president with high negatives and a Republican opponent with high negatives can give them some sliver “Center” wave — something a Charlie Crist once aimed at.<\/p>\n

Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Ross Perot.\u00c2\u00a0 Rummaging under that engine, was his metaphor.\u00c2\u00a0 Cranking up the mechanics.\u00c2\u00a0 Fire away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two stories about the Presidential contest come up once so often — whenever its principal actor puts out a press release, or whenever a columnist decides to point to it. Ralph Nader is searching for a Democratic Primary candidate to run against Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time I checked out of the story, Mike Gravel had […]<\/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-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","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=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}