{"id":68732,"date":"2018-12-06T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68732"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T03:04:23","slug":"the-next-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68732","title":{"rendered":"The Next Tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/election\/three-reasons-beto-is-the-democrats-candidate-to-beat-in-2020\/\">O&#8217;Rourke the candidate to beat for the Dems, next time around<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Former Rep. Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke (D-TX) has been meeting with former President Barack Obama. A meeting of these two minds makes a great deal of sense. In Obama, the Democrats found a blank slate candidate on whom voters could project their wishes and dreams and he won two terms. In O\u2019Rourke, the Democrats may have found the answer to their struggles in Texas. And if they can even become competitive in Texas, national politics will shift in the Democrats\u2019 favor. Democrats see 2020 as an opportunity to topple President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Two years is a long time in politics, but at the same time it\u2019s no time at all. The 2020 primaries are just over a year away. Any serious candidate for president in 2020 must be laying the groundwork now if they have not already started. They must be looking at building campaign staff, and they must have money in the bank or proven access to money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is O&#8217;Rourke the candidate to beat for the Dems, next time around? Former Rep. Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke (D-TX) has been meeting with former President Barack Obama. A meeting of these two minds makes a great deal of sense. In Obama, the Democrats found a blank slate candidate on whom voters could project their wishes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68732","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=68732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68733,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68732\/revisions\/68733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}