{"id":4693,"date":"2012-04-07T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2012-04-07T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T15:10:36","slug":"handicapping-romneys-potential-running-mates-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/handicapping-romneys-potential-running-mates-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Handicapping Romney&rsquo;s potential running mates &#8211; WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worth the read. A few names I didn&#8217;t recognized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/handicapping-romneys-potential-running-mates\/2012\/04\/05\/gIQA7gsMyS_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Handicapping Romney\u2019s potential running mates &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> &#8211; Eugene Robinson<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think of Christie as the \u201cfasten your seat belts\u201d choice. He has credibility as a conservative Republican, yet manages to survive in a state where appealing to independents is crucial. And no other potential vice presidential candidate would fill the traditional \u201cattack dog\u201d role with more gusto.<\/p>\n<p>But Jersey-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-leadership\/chris-christie-the-new-jersey-governors-unconvential-leadership-success\/2011\/11\/28\/gIQATmHW8N_story.html\">bombast<\/a> wouldn\u2019t necessarily play well in many parts of the country \u2014 the places where people are, you know, polite \u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/handicapping-romneys-potential-running-mates\/2012\/04\/05\/gIQA7gsMyS_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Handicapping Romney\u2019s potential running mates &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth the read. A few names I didn&#8217;t recognized. Handicapping Romney\u2019s potential running mates &#8211; The Washington Post &#8211; Eugene Robinson I think of Christie as the \u201cfasten your seat belts\u201d choice. He has credibility as a conservative Republican, yet manages to survive in a state where appealing to independents is crucial. And no other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/handicapping-romneys-potential-running-mates-wapo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handicapping Romney&rsquo;s potential running mates &#8211; WaPo<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}