{"id":163,"date":"2008-02-25T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:00:10","slug":"the-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The Spoiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080224\/ap_on_el_pr\/nader\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader has entered the presidential race<\/a>, things get a little more interesting.&#160; My personal feeling is that McCain would lose to Obama but could win against Clinton, with all her negatives.&#160; Nader typically draws votes more from the Democratic candidate (just ask Al Gore), so with Obama looking more and more like the presumptive candidate, I like this development.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>One of the things that Nader&#8217;s candidacy always puts forth is that he is the candidat of <em>real<\/em> change, and that there&#8217;s not much difference between the two major parties.&#160; Which, in my mind, means that those who vote for Nader on that basis really just don&#8217;t generally pay attention to what&#8217;s going on.&#160; That most of Nader&#8217;s votes come from Democrats says, to me, more about Democrats than about Nader.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Ralph Nader,Al Gore,Democrats,politics[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Ralph Nader has entered the presidential race, things get a little more interesting.&#160; My personal feeling is that McCain would lose to Obama but could win against Clinton, with all her negatives.&#160; Nader typically draws votes more from the Democratic candidate (just ask Al Gore), so with Obama looking more and more like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-government","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}