{"id":1628,"date":"2008-01-20T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2008-01-20T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T16:37:00","slug":"the-race-is-on-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"The Race Is On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, sure. Romney and Clinton win Nevada, while McCain exorcises his demons in South Carolina. But who cares? The real race, as I see it, is the epic battle shaping up between former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;rlz=1T4GZHZ_enCA251&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;q=%22frontrunner+rudy+giuliani%22&amp;spell=1\">&#8220;<span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">front runner<\/span>&#8221; Rudy Giuliani <\/a>and&#8230;<em>Ron Paul<\/em>? Here are the results to date:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iowa<\/strong> &#8211; edge Ron<br \/>Rudy 4%<br \/>Ron 10%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wyoming<\/strong> &#8211; draw<br \/>Rudy 0%<br \/>Ron 0%<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong> &#8211; edge Rudy<br \/>Rudy 9%<br \/>Ron 8%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michigan<\/strong> &#8211; edge Ron<br \/>Rudy 3%<br \/>Ron 6%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nevada<\/strong> &#8211; edge Ron<br \/>Rudy 4%<br \/>Ron 14%<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Carolina<\/strong> &#8211; edge Ron<br \/>Rudy 2%<br \/>Ron 4%<\/p>\n<p>And, in the ever important delegate count, Ron holds down fifth place with 6 pledged delegates, compared to Rudy&#8217;s&#8230;<em>one<\/em>. Oh, and that only leaves Rudy <em>tied <\/em>for sixth place on the delegate count with Duncan Hunter who picked up a delegate in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, Rudy&#8217;s strategy was always to suck as much as possible at the first few (fifty?) primaries so I&#8217;m fairly confident he&#8217;ll be able to overtake Ron Paul by the end of this thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, sure. Romney and Clinton win Nevada, while McCain exorcises his demons in South Carolina. But who cares? The real race, as I see it, is the epic battle shaping up between former &#8220;front runner&#8221; Rudy Giuliani and&#8230;Ron Paul? Here are the results to date: Iowa &#8211; edge RonRudy 4%Ron 10% Wyoming &#8211; drawRudy 0%Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}