{"id":5176,"date":"2012-03-20T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:47:10","slug":"is-rick-santorum-the-come-from-behind-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/is-rick-santorum-the-come-from-behind-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rick Santorum the &#8220;Come From Behind Kid&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of traffic accidents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000217952718\">are being reported<\/a> from eastern states as numerious NPR stations reported during the East Coast rush hour, that Santorum &#8220;hoped for a come from behind victory tonight!&#8221;  Spit removal crews have been mobilized. It is quite a mess.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, the climax of this particular primary battle will be delayed because there are widespread balloting problems in Illinois, where an important primary is being put to bed as we speak. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/illinois-republican-primary-widespread-ballot-problems-could-slow-vote-count\/2012\/03\/20\/gIQACp81PS_story.html\">According to the Washington Post<\/a>, &#8220;About a quarter of the state\u2019s counties were experiencing problems with their printed ballots, a Board of Elections official said, explaining they were too wide to fit&#8230;&#8221; <!--more-->in the scanning machines.  <\/p>\n<p>Romney&#8217;s lead over Santorum has been sizable in several recent polls, but there has been some last minute softening in his lead, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/il\/illinois_republican_presidential_primary-1593.html\">polls<\/a> at Real Clear Politics.  Nonetheless, the size of the lead will matter in today&#8217;s primary, and it is unlikely that Santorum will achieve his goal.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of traffic accidents are being reported from eastern states as numerious NPR stations reported during the East Coast rush hour, that Santorum &#8220;hoped for a come from behind victory tonight!&#8221; Spit removal crews have been mobilized. It is quite a mess. But alas, the climax of this particular primary battle will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/is-rick-santorum-the-come-from-behind-kid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Rick Santorum the &#8220;Come From Behind Kid&#8221;?<\/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":[284,553],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1lu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176"}],"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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}