{"id":184556,"date":"2012-03-20T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/20\/romney-crushes-santorum\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T03:57:00","slug":"romney-crushes-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/20\/romney-crushes-santorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Crushes Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Santorum won the Talibaptist vote, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57401253-503544\/romney-cruises-to-illinois-primary-win\/\">that&#8217;s not enough in Illinois<\/a>, where Romney crushed him.<\/p>\n<p>I expect this to continue for a while because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The press hates Romney now almost as much as they hated Gore in 2000.<\/li>\n<li>The states with high numbers of insane religious zealots, otherwise known as the Republican base, will continue to vote for the &#8220;Not the Mormon.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Romney got almost half the (admittedly anemic) votes cast, and Santorum did not manage to field a full slate of delegates, and it&#8217;s Illinois, which like Ohio, needs to be in play for any Republican to win, so I think that it&#8217;s game over, though I the clown show to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Santorum won the Talibaptist vote, but that&#8217;s not enough in Illinois, where Romney crushed him. I expect this to continue for a while because: The press hates Romney now almost as much as they hated Gore in 2000. The states with high numbers of insane religious zealots, otherwise known as the Republican &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184556"}],"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=184556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}