{"id":355,"date":"2008-09-13T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2008-09-13T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T03:09:12","slug":"why-mccain-is-going-so-negative-so-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/13\/why-mccain-is-going-so-negative-so-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Why McCain is going so negative, so often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Politico.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0908\/13412.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to an article on <em>politico.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The following quote from the article should give you an idea of what you will learn:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves after the picture-perfect reaction \u2014 in the GOP\u2019s view \u2014 to the decision to put Palin on the ticket. The choice provoked derision from elites, jubilation among conservative voters long skeptical of McCain and uncertainty from Obama about how to respond. If you are a McCain staffer, it doesn\u2019t get better than that \u2014 so who cares that the candidate had met her only once and her chief foreign policy credential seems to be that she lives closer to Russia than other Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to an article on politico.com. The following quote from the article should give you an idea of what you will learn: McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves after the picture-perfect reaction \u2014 in the GOP\u2019s view \u2014 to the decision to put Palin on the ticket. The choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[151],"class_list":{"0":"post-355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-campaing-strategy","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}