{"id":5072,"date":"2012-02-17T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2012-02-17T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:04:16","slug":"the-state-of-the-republican-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/the-state-of-the-republican-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Republican Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s let the data speak for itself, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; starting out we had this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Iowa: <del>Romney<\/del> <em>Santorum<\/em><br \/>\nNew Hampshire: Romney<br \/>\nSouth Carolina: Gingrich<\/p>\n<p>Headlines: Romney winning<br \/>\nReality: Three way horse race<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; then we had this for a while &#8230;<br \/>\nFlorida: Romney<br \/>\nNevada: Romney<br \/>\nColorado: Santorum<br \/>\nMinnesota: Santorum<br \/>\nMissouri: Santorum<\/p>\n<p>Headlines: Romney Winning<br \/>\nReality: Santorum has taken half the contests, Romney a close second<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; right now this seems to be happening &#8230;<br \/>\nMaine: <del>Romney<\/del> <em>Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Headlines: Romney may have a Santorum Problem<br \/>\nReality: Uh huh. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the near future &#8230;<br \/>\nArizona: Romney ahead in polls, Santorum closing in fast, Gingrich becoming irrelevant<br \/>\nMichigan: Santorum maintains a firm lead over Romney<\/p>\n<p>Headlines?: Ohio is where the real contest will be!<br \/>\nReality?: Are we having fun yet?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the distant future &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ohio: Santorum leading<br \/>\nGeneral Election: Santorum and Romney equally matched against Obama<\/p>\n<p>Headlines?: Gingrich and Paul leave race, Bachmann reenters Presidential Contest?!!?<br \/>\nReality?: Reality hardly applies, thought, does it?<\/p>\n<p>Polling from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/latest_polls\/\">RCP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s let the data speak for itself, as it were. &#8230; starting out we had this &#8230; Iowa: Romney Santorum New Hampshire: Romney South Carolina: Gingrich Headlines: Romney winning Reality: Three way horse race &#8230; then we had this for a while &#8230; Florida: Romney Nevada: Romney Colorado: Santorum Minnesota: Santorum Missouri: Santorum Headlines: Romney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/the-state-of-the-republican-primaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of the Republican Primaries<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[883,284,894,553],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1jO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}