{"id":184608,"date":"2012-03-07T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/07\/1000-words-on-the-republican-presidential-porimaries\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:28:00","slug":"1000-words-on-the-republican-presidential-porimaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/07\/1000-words-on-the-republican-presidential-porimaries\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Words on the Republican Presidential POrimaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fix&#8217;s graphic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/romneys-big-delegate-lead--in-one-graph\/2012\/03\/07\/gIQAKBa0wR_blog.html\">says it all<\/a>:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jW4tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>A quick run of the numbers says that Romney has won about 55% of all the delegates this far, and he&#8217;s a bit over 1\/3 of the way to winning the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>He needs about half of the remaining votes to win, as versus 2\/3 for the Santorum.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason that we are still seeing a race is because the press hates Romney worse than it hated Al Gore in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Really, absent a live boy or dead girl in his bed, Romney is the nominee, particularly when you consider the number of unelected delegates, congressmen and whatnot, who won&#8217;t vote for Santorum or Gingrich if you put a gun to head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fix&#8217;s graphic says it all:A quick run of the numbers says that Romney has won about 55% of all the delegates this far, and he&#8217;s a bit over 1\/3 of the way to winning the nomination. He needs about half of the remaining votes to win, as versus 2\/3 for the Santorum. The only &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184608"}],"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=184608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}