{"id":192015,"date":"2009-05-22T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/22\/let-there-be-contested-primaries\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:01:00","slug":"let-there-be-contested-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/22\/let-there-be-contested-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Let There Be Contested Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama must be listening to Rahm Emanuel again, because he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0509\/Obama_clears_field_for_Gillibrand_in_New_York.html?showall\">just successfully pressured Rep. Steve Israel to drop out of the New York primary race against Kristen Gillibrand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we see yet another case of incumbent protection.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know whether or not Gillibrand would win in a real contested primary.  She probably would, she is a prodigious fund raiser.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, she seems to be moving a little to the left now that she is representing the state of New York, as opposed to just her Neanderthal district.<\/p>\n<p>But none of that earns her, or <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">any<\/span> candidate, the right to a primary without a meaningful challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama must be listening to Rahm Emanuel again, because he just successfully pressured Rep. Steve Israel to drop out of the New York primary race against Kristen Gillibrand. I guess we see yet another case of incumbent protection. I do not know whether or not Gillibrand would win in a real contested primary. She &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192015"}],"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=192015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}