{"id":919,"date":"2008-05-12T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T06:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-05-12T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T06:45:40","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (33)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are different estimates of the delegate count secured by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but most now suggest that Obama has just acquired more super delegate votes than her &#8211; adding to his long-term lead in the pledged delegate tally.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/demconwatch.blogspot.com\/\">2008 Democratic Convention Watch<\/a> gives their calculations and some others. The trend is very clear: Obama has effectively won the nomination and Clinton needs to find an early and dignified exit strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different estimates of the delegate count secured by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but most now suggest that Obama has just acquired more super delegate votes than her &#8211; adding to his long-term lead in the pledged delegate tally. The 2008 Democratic Convention Watch gives their calculations and some others. The trend is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}