{"id":2432,"date":"2008-04-14T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T10:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2008-04-14T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T10:26:29","slug":"the-first-salvo-of-the-12-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"The First Salvo of the &#8217;12 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico sez Hillary is&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0408\/9564.html\">sandbagging<\/a>?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of coverage of the Clinton campaign supposes them to be in kitchen-sink mode \u2014 hurling every pot and pan, no matter the damage this might do to Obama as the likely Democratic nominee in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Democratic race has not been especially rough by historical standards. What\u2019s more, our conversations with Democrats who speak to the Clintons make plain that their public comments are only the palest version of what they really believe: that if Obama is the nominee, a likely Democratic victory would turn to a near-certain defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Far from a no-holds-barred affair, the Democratic contest has been an exercise in self-censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Rip off the duct tape and here is what they would say: Obama has serious problems with Jewish voters (goodbye Florida), working-class whites (goodbye Ohio) and Hispanics (goodbye, New Mexico).<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will also ruthlessly exploit openings that Clinton \u2014 in the genteel confines of an intraparty contest \u2014 never could. Top targets: Obama\u2019s radioactive personal associations, his liberal ideology, his exotic life story, his coolly academic and elitist style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is Madame Putin just paying out rope, biding her time for &#8217;12?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico sez Hillary is&#8230;sandbagging?: A lot of coverage of the Clinton campaign supposes them to be in kitchen-sink mode \u2014 hurling every pot and pan, no matter the damage this might do to Obama as the likely Democratic nominee in the fall. In fact, the Democratic race has not been especially rough by historical standards. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}