{"id":197906,"date":"2008-01-03T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/dodd-refuses-to-make-2nd-choice-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T05:13:00","slug":"dodd-refuses-to-make-2nd-choice-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/dodd-refuses-to-make-2nd-choice-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodd Refuses to Make 2nd Choice Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His statement reflects <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/dodd-wont-offer-second-choice-endorsement-2008-01-02.html\">is one of the seamier sides of the Iowa Caucuses<\/a>, the horse trading that goes on for 2nd choice endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>If a candidate does not get 15% in a precinct caucus, he is declared non-viable, and his supporters have to caucus for someone else, so this can be significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His statement reflects is one of the seamier sides of the Iowa Caucuses, the horse trading that goes on for 2nd choice endorsements. If a candidate does not get 15% in a precinct caucus, he is declared non-viable, and his supporters have to caucus for someone else, so this can be significant.<\/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-197906","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\/197906"}],"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=197906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}