{"id":5036,"date":"2009-07-06T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2009-07-06T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:01:44","slug":"straw-poll-in-the-dark-presidential-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5036","title":{"rendered":"Straw Poll In The Dark:  Presidential Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again &#8211; it&#8217;s super-di-duper early.\u00a0 But as we saw in the last electoral go-&#8217;round, there&#8217;s really less and less such thing as &#8220;too early&#8221;; the &#8217;08 race pretty much started at 8AM on November 3, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>So who should be nominated to run for President next time around?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to hazard a guess that you Democrats have found your Obamessiah, and will be sitting this particular straw poll out, but feel free to nominate a challenger if you&#8217;re so inclined (or if Obama&#8217;s economic policy has swallowed your job, unlikely as that is in a party that&#8217;s mostly government employees, the unemployable, and plutocrats.\u00a0 Oh, I kid.\u00a0 I kid.\u00a0 I left out lobbyists, soft-skills consultants and the young and solipsistic).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; same rule as the Governor poll.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll be running the Prez straw poll on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 By the way &#8211; I&#8217;m keeping things on subject here.\u00a0 Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again &#8211; it&#8217;s super-di-duper early.\u00a0 But as we saw in the last electoral go-&#8217;round, there&#8217;s really less and less such thing as &#8220;too early&#8221;; the &#8217;08 race pretty much started at 8AM on November 3, 2004. So who should be nominated to run for President next time around?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to hazard a guess that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","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=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}