{"id":182698,"date":"2015-06-28T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/28\/i-am-amused-4\/"},"modified":"2015-06-28T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:36:00","slug":"i-am-amused-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/28\/i-am-amused-4\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Amused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Fox News Poll, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/06\/24\/fox-news-poll-bush-trump-score-post-announcement-bumps\/\">Donald Trump is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> most popular candidates in the Republican primaries<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There\u2019s been a lineup change in the race for the GOP nomination, as businessman Donald Trump moves up after declaring his candidacy. He\u2019s now second in the order after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who also got an uptick in support after his formal announcement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">For Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still &#8212; by far &#8212; the team leader, according to a new Fox News national poll on the 2016 presidential election.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bush tops the list of GOP contenders with 15 percent support among Republican primary voters.  That\u2019s up from 12 percent last month and his best showing yet.  Support for Trump more than doubled since his announcement and that catapults him into the top tier at 11 percent. He\u2019s followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 10 percent.  No one else receives double-digit backing. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bush officially kicked off his campaign June 15 and Trump launched June 16. It\u2019s common for candidates to see a bump in their numbers in the days following their formal announcement and the media coverage that comes with that. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The bad news for Trump is that only 29 percent of GOP primary voters consider him a serious candidate.  More than twice that many &#8212; 64 percent &#8212; think he\u2019s a side show.  Among all registered voters, nearly 8 in 10 say Trump is a side show (77 percent). <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This appears to mean that the &#8220;2<sup>nd<\/sup> worst Donald on Earth,&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup>Fox News, much to the chagrin of the voters, is trying to limit its debates to the &#8220;top 10&#8221; candidates, which has the effect of eliminating those at positions 11 and below from having a meaningful chance in Iowa or New Hampshire, and hence the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>And it appears that the biggest joke in Presidential politics will get one of those seats at the table.<\/p>\n<p>It so sucks to be a Republican right now.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Larry Wilmore called Donald Rumsfeld, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/the-only-donald-worse-than-trump.html\">The Only Donald Worse than Trump<\/a>,&#8221; and I wholeheartedly agree.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Fox News Poll, Donald Trump is the 2nd most popular candidates in the Republican primaries: There\u2019s been a lineup change in the race for the GOP nomination, as businessman Donald Trump moves up after declaring his candidacy. He\u2019s now second in the order after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who also got &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1000,978,1091,977,1019,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-elections","category-politics","category-polls","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182698"}],"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=182698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}