{"id":1037,"date":"2004-01-19T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/dc-primary-first-in-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2004-01-19T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T04:00:18","slug":"dc-primary-first-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dc-primary-first-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Primary &#8211; FIRST in the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In case you missed it, DC held a primary before Iowa or New Hampshire. In fact, DC deliberately moved ahead of all others in order to draw attention to the fact that DC has no voting representation (we had a revolution over that). Ironically, the Democratic National Committee forced DC to make their primary &#8216;non-binding&#8217; &#8212; don&#8217;t want to tick off Iowa and New Hampshire (95% white). mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"| ABQjournal News | The Associated Press |\" href=\"http:\/\/customwire.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/D\/DC_DEM_PRES_SUM?SITE=NMALJ&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">| ABQjournal News | The Associated Press |<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unofficial Returns in D.C. Primary<br \/>\nBy The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>The latest, unofficial returns in the Democratic presidential primary in District of Columbia on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean, 17,736 &#8211; 43 percent<br \/>\nAl Sharpton, 14,248 &#8211; 34 percent<br \/>\nCarol Moseley Braun, 4,824 &#8211; 12 percent<br \/>\nDennis Kucinich, 3,435 &#8211; 8 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, DC held a primary before Iowa or New Hampshire. In fact, DC deliberately moved ahead of all others in order to draw attention to the fact that DC has no voting representation (we had a revolution over that). Ironically, the Democratic National Committee forced DC to make their primary &#8216;non-binding&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dc-primary-first-in-the-nation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DC Primary &#8211; FIRST in the Nation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}