{"id":1725,"date":"2008-04-26T02:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-04-26T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T02:45:27","slug":"whats_goping_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s GOP-ing On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time reading GOP sites (I don&#8217;t have much time, and their party&#8217;s success isn&#8217;t my priority), but was struck by the rate of  GOP legislative retirements, and the assorted comments from the Democratic bloggers that the GOP is having trouble fielding candidates for the newly open seats.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just crazy. I&#8217;d assumed that the dysfunctional and suicidal California GOP was relatively alone in its behavior, buit that seems not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? And why is it &#8211; if the GOP is so weak &#8211; that McCain is doing so well in the polls? And &#8211; contra &#8211; why is it that he&#8217;s doing so badly in raising money?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a fast and useful explanation for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t the GOP field any candidates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}