{"id":11807,"date":"2008-01-30T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/30\/and-then-there-were-two-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-30T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:19:34","slug":"and_then_there_were_two_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/and_then_there_were_two_2.html","title":{"rendered":"And then there were two"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Edwards was never going to be the person I voted for in the Democratic primaries\/caucuses … but I thought he brought an important voice to a variety of issues in the race, so I’m sorry to see him withdraw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:  It’s no surprise, though, that Giuliani is bowing out<\/a>.  He rolled the dice on a “Florida Only” strategy — and proved it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

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John Edwards was never going to be the person I voted for in the Democratic primaries\/caucuses … but I thought he brought an important voice to a variety of issues…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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-11807","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":131366,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/colorado-may-go-back-to-presidential-primaries.html","url_meta":{"origin":11807,"position":0},"title":"Colorado may go back to presidential primaries","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 27-Aug-16 1:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Caucuses are messy, dubiously democratic, and sometimes not even meaningful. 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