{"id":119,"date":"2008-07-13T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-07-13T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T17:58:50","slug":"a-mccain-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/a-mccain-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"A McCain landslide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"go to americanthinker.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Thinker<\/a> is one my daily must reads and this mornings piece by Kyle-Anne Shiver &#8220;<a title=\"Read \" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2008\/07\/could_2008_be_a_mccain_landsli.html\" target=\"_blank\">Could 2008 Be a McCain Landslide?<\/a>&#8221; certainly has me thinking. I&#8217;m not ready to join Ms. Shiver out on that limb though, frankly I&#8217;m more pessimistic about John McCain&#8217;s prospects than she is. That said her analysis is definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Thinker is one my daily must reads and this mornings piece by Kyle-Anne Shiver &#8220;Could 2008 Be a McCain Landslide?&#8221; certainly has me thinking. I&#8217;m not ready to join Ms. Shiver out on that limb though, frankly I&#8217;m more pessimistic about John McCain&#8217;s prospects than she is. That said her analysis is definitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[7],"tags":[47,57,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-2008-elections","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-john-mccain","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1986,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/minuteman-founder-to-challange-john-mccain\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"Minuteman Founder To Challange John McCain","author":"Jeff","date":"April 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Minuteman Civil Defense Corps founder Chris Simcox is expected to announce today that he will challenge Arizona Sen. John McCain in a Republican primary in 201o: PHOENIX \u2014 The co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Arizona will challenge Sen. John McCain in the 2010 Republican primary. Chris Simcox\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":614,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/public-funding-limits-behind-mccains-michigan-pullout\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":1},"title":"Public Funding Limits Behind McCain&#8217;s Michigan Pullout?","author":"Jeff","date":"October 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hill is reporting that public funding limits are behind the McCain Campaign's decision to pullout of Michigan. 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