{"id":54619,"date":"2015-07-31T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54619"},"modified":"2015-07-30T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:20:56","slug":"fit-to-be-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54619","title":{"rendered":"Fit To Be Tied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after six years of &#8220;Hillary is\u00a0inevitable&#8221;, six months of the establishment positing Jeb Bush as the only option, and six weeks of the media trying to wedge the\u00a0GOP with Donald Trump, we have \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3977941\/hillary-clinton-poll-trump\/\">what\u00a0might be surprising news to report<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the election were held today, <strong>Clinton would be tied<\/strong> with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and <strong>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the poll<\/strong>\u2014down from significant leads in a May 28 survey\u2014but would top the current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make sure we&#8217;re clear on this: \u00a0the media has been anointing Hillary as &#8220;the first woman president&#8221; for a generation, now. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been pimping Trump to monkeywrench the GOP. \u00a0The GOP &#8220;establishment&#8221; has been pushing Jeb as the next best hope &#8211; not without\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>reason.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the stubborn peasants keep popping up for Walker.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be more relieved if Walker is atop the polls this spring, naturally.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after six years of &#8220;Hillary is\u00a0inevitable&#8221;, six months of the establishment positing Jeb Bush as the only option, and six weeks of the media trying to wedge the\u00a0GOP with Donald Trump, we have \u00a0what\u00a0might be surprising news to report (emphasis added): If the election were held today, Clinton would be tied with former Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619","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=54619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions\/54632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}