{"id":160,"date":"2004-01-20T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2004-01-20T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T17:37:53","slug":"dean-slipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/20\/dean-slipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean slipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Howard Dean has started his slide off the political stage with a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=694&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20040120\/ap_on_el_pr\/iowa_caucus_rdp\">third place finish<\/a> in Iowa.  Some people credit this to some of his misstatements or flip-flopping on issues, but I tend to think it&#8217;s coming down to what some Republicans had realized <a href=\"http:\/\/tlianza.subaverage.com\/mt\/archives\/000537.html\">some time ago<\/a> that he doesn&#8217;t appear likely to beat Bush.  Kerry on the other hand, strikes me as someone who appears more presidential (I don&#8217;t know a better way to put it), and could give the Republicans more of a run for their money.  It will be interesting to see how Clark impacts the race in New Hampshire since he didn&#8217;t campaign in Iowa.  It will also be interesting to see who <a href=\"http:\/\/coondog.subaverage.com\/archives\/000538.shtml\">Coon Dog votes for<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Howard Dean has started his slide off the political stage with a third place finish in Iowa. Some people credit this to some of his misstatements or flip-flopping on issues, but I tend to think it&#8217;s coming down to what some Republicans had realized some time ago that he doesn&#8217;t appear likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}