{"id":26882,"date":"2012-03-07T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/no-gop-fat-lady-anywhere-ready-to-sing.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:27:20","slug":"no-gop-fat-lady-anywhere-ready-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/no-gop-fat-lady-anywhere-ready-to-sing.html","title":{"rendered":"No GOP Fat Lady anywhere ready to sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>1. The bulk of upcoming contests are not in Romney-friendly states.<br \/>2. There&#39;s a lot of unenthusiasm about the candidates (even the ones voted for).<br \/>3. There&#39;s a serious divide between &quot;very&quot; and &quot;somewhat&quot; conservative voters.<br \/>4. There&#39;s a serious divide between &quot;principle&quot; and &quot;pragmatic&quot; conservatives (basically restating #3).<br \/>5. Santorum and Gingrich are splitting the &quot;very&quot; conservative vote; if they both stay in, Romney&#39;s chances to win go way up.<\/p>\n<p>Not much there I&#39;d disagree with.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.i.com.com%2Fcnwk.1d%2Fi%2Ftim%2F2012%2F03%2F06%2FSuper_Tuesday_santorum_romney_split_120306_175x131.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57392614-503544\/five-takeaways-from-super-tuesday\/'>Five takeaways from Super Tuesday &#8211; Political Hotsheet &#8211; CBS News<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnalysis: Super Tuesday results suggest the GOP race is very much alive amid a lack of enthusiasm among Republican voters Read more by Samuel J. Best on CBS News&#39; Political Hotsheet.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five takeaways: 1. The bulk of upcoming contests are not in Romney-friendly states.2. There&#39;s a lot of unenthusiasm about the candidates (even the ones voted for).3. There&#39;s a serious divide between &quot;very&quot; and &quot;somewhat&quot; conservative voters.4. There&#39;s a serious divide between &quot;principle&quot; and &quot;pragmatic&quot; conservatives (basically restating #3).5. Santorum and Gingrich are splitting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/no-gop-fat-lady-anywhere-ready-to-sing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No GOP Fat Lady anywhere ready to sing&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":26882,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":26882,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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