{"id":713,"date":"2008-02-07T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2008-02-07T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:15:22","slug":"after-super-duper-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"After Super Duper Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t really clear anything up, did it?<br \/>\nWhich is fine. I think it&#8217;s <em>extremely<\/em> healthy for the US Democratic nomination to be a long-running down-to-the-wire battle between two candidates who represent similar policy sets but very different visions, and (crucially) neither of whom are white guys. Not least because it provides extra impetus for sorting out their ridiculous electoral system, which is still a complete third-world shambles in every way you&#8217;d care to think about.<br \/>\nAnd on the other side of the fence, white guy with extra pro-war. However it shakes out it&#8217;ll be a fascinating election, and probably the nastiest election in decades as the Repub strategists go to town on triggering the latent sexism\/racism (delete one) of the independent electorate.<br \/>\n(Props to <a href=http:\/\/maupuiamasala.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/06\/liveblogging-super-tuesday-on-a-rather-average-wednesday-morning\/>Sonal for liveblogging the day<\/a>. Hardcore.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t really clear anything up, did it? Which is fine. I think it&#8217;s extremely healthy for the US Democratic nomination to be a long-running down-to-the-wire battle between two candidates who represent similar policy sets but very different visions, and (crucially) neither of whom are white guys. Not least because it provides extra impetus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After Super Duper Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-bv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}