{"id":497,"date":"2007-02-23T10:51:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/23\/we-hardly-knew-ye-whoever-ye-were\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T16:51:36","slug":"we-hardly-knew-ye-whoever-ye-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"We Hardly Knew Ye.  Whoever Ye Were."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Vilsack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/587\/story\/1020897.html\">bails out of the Prez race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vilsack left office in January and traveled through states holding early tests of strength, but he attracted neither the attention nor the campaign cash of his top tier rivals \u2014 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent financial documents, Vilsack reported raising more than $1.1 million in the last seven weeks of 2006 but only had around $396,000 cash in the bank. Some campaign finance experts contend the candidates will need $20 million by June 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Vilsack&#8217;s decision still leaves a crowded field of eight Democrats dominated by Clinton, Obama and Edwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best I <em>could <\/em>say about Tom Vilsack was that &#8220;he&#8217;d suck less as a president than Hillary! or Obama &#8211; but I&#8217;d be lying.\u00a0 Vilsack&#8217;s moderate credentials were forged.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the farther left the field drifts, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Vilsack bails out of the Prez race. Vilsack left office in January and traveled through states holding early tests of strength, but he attracted neither the attention nor the campaign cash of his top tier rivals \u2014 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards. In the most recent financial documents, Vilsack [&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-497","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\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}