{"id":10420,"date":"2007-01-20T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/20\/let-the-games-begin.html"},"modified":"2007-01-20T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T06:55:08","slug":"let_the_games_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/let_the_games_begin.html","title":{"rendered":"Let the games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/01\/16\/obama.papers\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/01\/20\/clinton.announcement\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, Edwards, Dodd, Biden, Kucinich, Vilsack, and whomever else decides to poke their noses in.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just hope the Dems can figure out a solid candidate without (as usual) self-destructing. With Republicans like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070120\/ap_on_el_pr\/brownback2008\" target=\"_blank\">Brownback<\/a> running, it&#8217;s almost a moral necessity &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/2008_election_looks_like_itll_be_interesting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. Hillary Clinton. And, of course, Edwards, Dodd, Biden, Kucinich, Vilsack, and whomever else decides to poke their noses in. Let&#8217;s just hope the Dems can figure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11278,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/strange_bedfellows_in_08.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":0},"title":"Strange Bedfellows in &#8217;08","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-07 9:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My positions (as judged by relatively simplistic questions) most closely align with John Edwards and ... Bill Richardson?\u00a0 With Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton tied immediately behind.\u00a0...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/voting-butterfly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12077,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/my_candidate_probably.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":1},"title":"My candidate &#8230; probably","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Nov-07 8:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"At Dave N.'s suggestion, I re-ran this \"Who's your ideal candidate?\" test, which looks at policy positions both of the candidates and of my own (positions and weighting). 1.\u00a0 Theoretical...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectsmart.com\/plus\/fade.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/the_one_true_litmus_test.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":2},"title":"The One True Litmus Test","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-May-07 8:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: My serious goof. The pols were actually asked about their favorite reality show. That doesn't make their answers any more honest, but it makes them slightly less creepy. Though...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tv-philco-predicta.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/my_candidate_maybe.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":3},"title":"My candidate &#8230; maybe","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jul-07 1:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Based on a fairly decent policy position quiz, here are my optimal choices.\u00a0 At a minimum, I lose about 25% of my \"ideal.\" Your Results:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Theoretical Ideal Candidate \u00a0\u00a0(100%)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectsmart.com\/plus\/fade.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/well_well_well_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":4},"title":"Well, well, well &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Jan-08 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's important not to overanalyze and overhype the results from the Iowa caucuses -- a oddball system in a relatively small state -- save that the results, because they...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/voting-butterfly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-progressive-case-for-hillary-clinton.html","url_meta":{"origin":10420,"position":5},"title":"The Progressive Case for Hillary Clinton","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Sep-16 4:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been as guilty as any of spending a lot more time attacking Donald Trump than supporting Hillary Clinton. 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