{"id":3203,"date":"2008-09-02T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2008-09-02T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:23:33","slug":"where-have-we-heard-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Where Have We Heard This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0908\/13062.html\">Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far \u2014 and it is hard to tell what the future may hold for Palin\u2019s unexpected national candidacy \u2014 the travails of the Palin family probably seem awfully familiar to many average Americans. It is this averageness that makes her such a politically promising running mate for John McCain \u2014 and such a dangerous opponent for Democrats. Many voters will find it easy to identify with her family\u2019s struggles \u2014 a significant advantage in an election where the voting calculus is so unusually and intensely personal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe much of the &#8220;hope&#8221; for &#8220;change&#8221; in this election comes from people wanting Washington &#8211; government at all levels, really &#8211; to &#8220;understand&#8221; them; to legislate without talking down, to operate without overreaching, to do the right thing <em>by us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I think the symbolism of the Palin candidacy is a complete bombshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: So far \u2014 and it is hard to tell what the future may hold for Palin\u2019s unexpected national candidacy \u2014 the travails of the Palin family probably seem awfully familiar to many average Americans. It is this averageness that makes her such a politically promising running mate for John McCain \u2014 and such a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","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=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}