{"id":129576,"date":"2016-01-30T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T23:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/yeah-pretty-much-my-thoughts-on-the-democratic-nomination-this-year.html"},"modified":"2016-01-31T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:58:08","slug":"yeah-pretty-much-my-thoughts-on-the-democratic-nomination-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/yeah-pretty-much-my-thoughts-on-the-democratic-nomination-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, pretty much my thoughts on the Democratic nomination this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper editorial board endorsements of candidates aren&#39;t usually something I pay much attention to, and that it&#39;s the NYT in this case is neither surprising nor, for me, meaningful. But their endorsement of Clinton lines up with my thoughts on her. I don&#39;t know that she&#39;s my idea candidate, but I think she&#39;s a much more practical nominee than Sanders, and head and shoulders over anything the GOP is likely to put forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/hillary-clinton-endorsement.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4PJI3WVtbXy3iOPXexnfXRrjurVztUHk7QkO0MK84ikYJZV990_Bxhw8W8JDGC2XHLbFge2Kh0FXrbpMRK3VjVoG_PGllJoaVYMmFgRadK_RGbn5eQwB59ym3Ko1RDevMPlCFHWhAA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/hillary-clinton-endorsement.html'>Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nVoters have the chance to choose one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EaC6sQQe8fR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper editorial board endorsements of candidates aren&#39;t usually something I pay much attention to, and that it&#39;s the NYT in this case is neither surprising nor, for me, meaningful. But their endorsement of Clinton lines up with my thoughts on her. I don&#39;t know that she&#39;s my idea candidate, but I think she&#39;s a much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/yeah-pretty-much-my-thoughts-on-the-democratic-nomination-this-year.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yeah, pretty much my thoughts on the Democratic nomination this year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12660,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/one_good_reason_to_get_ou.html","url_meta":{"origin":129576,"position":0},"title":"One good reason to get out of the country","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Mar-08 6:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I am sick unto death of the Democratic nomination race. 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