{"id":197404,"date":"2008-02-07T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/democrats-like-their-candidates\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T11:05:00","slug":"democrats-like-their-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/democrats-like-their-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Like Their Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was directed toward this <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/05\/schneider-conservatives-seem-split-could-be-long-night-for-dems\/\">comment from CNN&#8217;s Bill Schneider<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>There&#8217;s no doubt Democrats are torn between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But the early exit polls show they are not bitterly divided: 72 percent of Democrats said they would be satisfied if Clinton won the party&#8217;s nomination, while 71 percent say the same about Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What ever happens in the primary, it&#8217;s clear that Democrats will be voting, and pulling the D<sup>*<\/sup> lever, in November.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/voters-like-these-candidates-by-dday.html\">Digby<\/a> for the catch.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Yes, I know&#8230;.lever voting machines are a vanishing breed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was directed toward this comment from CNN&#8217;s Bill Schneider There&#8217;s no doubt Democrats are torn between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But the early exit polls show they are not bitterly divided: 72 percent of Democrats said they would be satisfied if Clinton won the party&#8217;s nomination, while 71 percent say the same about &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-197404","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\/197404"}],"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=197404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}