{"id":184855,"date":"2012-01-03T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/03\/its-too-close-to-call-between-mitt-and-the-frothy-mixture\/"},"modified":"2012-01-03T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:11:00","slug":"its-too-close-to-call-between-mitt-and-the-frothy-mixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/03\/its-too-close-to-call-between-mitt-and-the-frothy-mixture\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Too Close to Call Between Mitt  and &#8220;The Frothy Mixture.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are still tabulating votes in Iowa, and it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2012\/01\/03\/iowa_caucuses_at_last_opening_night_for_gop_race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too close to call<\/a> between Romney and Santorum,with Paul being a close 3<sup>rd<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Returns from 1,703 of 1,774 precincts showed Santorum with 24.6 percent, Romney with 24.5 percent and Paul with 21.3 percent. Santorum had 29,046 votes, Romney 28,928 and Paul 25,121.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that, no matter how it turns out, Mitt wins this.<\/p>\n<p>Rick &#8220;The Frothy Mixture&#8221; Santorum has no funds and no organization, and he won&#8217;t play well in New Hampshire, and Ron Paul is \u2026 Ron Paul, so it&#8217;s now Mitt&#8217;s race to lose, regardless of how the next few thousand votes break.<\/p>\n<p>Romney needed to lose, and lose <b>big<\/b> for someone to be in a real position to challenge him.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, considering my record of prognostication\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are still tabulating votes in Iowa, and it&#8217;s too close to call between Romney and Santorum,with Paul being a close 3rd: Returns from 1,703 of 1,774 precincts showed Santorum with 24.6 percent, Romney with 24.5 percent and Paul with 21.3 percent. Santorum had 29,046 votes, Romney 28,928 and Paul 25,121. It&#8217;s pretty clear that, &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-184855","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\/184855"}],"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=184855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}