{"id":77,"date":"2008-01-16T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T17:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-01-16T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T17:13:44","slug":"a-brokered-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"A Brokered Convention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee, McCain and now Romney have all taken 1st place in a primary or caucus.  Does this mean the Republicans are headed for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brokered_convention\" target=\"_blank\">brokered convention<\/a>?  <a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/politics\/republican-party\/17105\/fractured-gop-romney-wins-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Moderate Voice<\/a> thinks so.  <a href=\"http:\/\/donklephant.com\/2008\/01\/15\/mitt-takes-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donklephant<\/a> is wondering.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=24477\" target=\"_blank\">John Gizzi at Human Events<\/a> hopes so (it&#8217;s good for business; he&#8217;s  political reporter).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  And would this be a good thing or a bad thing for Republicans?  Would a moving target for Democrats give them less of a chance to do opposition research, or do you think they&#8217;ve got a dossier on the whole GOP field already?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]US president,brokered convention,Republicans,The Moderate Voice,Donklephant,John Gizzi,Human Events[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee, McCain and now Romney have all taken 1st place in a primary or caucus. Does this mean the Republicans are headed for a brokered convention? The Moderate Voice thinks so. Donklephant is wondering. John Gizzi at Human Events hopes so (it&#8217;s good for business; he&#8217;s political reporter). What do you think? And would this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-politics","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}