{"id":198907,"date":"2007-09-30T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/edwardss-backs-off-a-bit-on-public-financing\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T03:53:00","slug":"edwardss-backs-off-a-bit-on-public-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/edwardss-backs-off-a-bit-on-public-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards\u2019s Backs off a Bit on Public Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/29\/us\/politics\/29edwards.html?8dpc\">is now saying that he won&#8217;t use public financing in the general if the Republican does not too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that a bunch of his supporters just told him how stupid it was, but he is still disarming in the primary.  My assessment stands, put a fork in him, Edwards is done.<\/p>\n<p>From the article, I also realize that Joe Trippi is on his team&#8230;he is so doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards is now saying that he won&#8217;t use public financing in the general if the Republican does not too. My guess is that a bunch of his supporters just told him how stupid it was, but he is still disarming in the primary. My assessment stands, put a fork in him, Edwards is done. From &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198907"}],"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=198907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}