{"id":181189,"date":"2016-09-08T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/third-party-candidate-fail\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:04:00","slug":"third-party-candidate-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/third-party-candidate-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Party Candidate Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan McMullin, the great white hope of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican party, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/evan-mcmullin-running-mate-227803\">filed for Presidential elections ballots with a place holder VP who is now his official running mate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Evan McMullin is running as an independent conservative alternative to Donald Trump. Who McMullin is running with, however, is a bit of a mystery.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In all nine states where he has officially qualified to appear on the presidential ballot, McMullin has listed a \u201cNathan Johnson\u201d as his vice presidential nominee. McMullin\u2019s campaign won\u2019t provide any more information about Johnson \u2014 including which of the thousands of people named Nathan Johnson the campaign is referring to \u2014 saying he is only a placeholder until McMullin names an actual running mate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But in eight of the nine states, top election officials say McMullin\u2019s campaign can\u2019t pull Johnson\u2019s name off the ballot, and that it\u2019s \u201cNathan Johnson\u201d \u2014 not whomever McMullin eventually names as his pick for vice president \u2014 that will appear on the ballot.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another Republican who cannot find his ass with both hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan McMullin, the great white hope of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican party, filed for Presidential elections ballots with a place holder VP who is now his official running mate: Evan McMullin is running as an independent conservative alternative to Donald Trump. Who McMullin is running with, however, is a bit of a mystery.In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[768,823,816,824],"class_list":["post-181189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}