{"id":934,"date":"2008-05-23T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-05-23T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T12:01:15","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (36)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton was 33 percentage points clear of Barack Obama in a poll in September 2007, but today it is Obama who is close to clinching the Democratic nomination. He&#8217;s done it because he is a brilliant candidate &#8211; but he&#8217;s been assisted by a very impressive team headed by his formidable campaign strategist David Alexrod.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/23\/barackobama.uselections2008\">a profile<\/a> of Axelrod in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper.<br \/>\nFootnote: Do any politicos out there share my view that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/01\/magazine\/01axelrod.t.html?_r=3&#038;oref=slogin&#038;ref=magazine&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">David Alexrod<\/a> looks a bit like Tony Blair&#8217;s No 10 head of communications <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3076574.stm\">David Hill<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton was 33 percentage points clear of Barack Obama in a poll in September 2007, but today it is Obama who is close to clinching the Democratic nomination. He&#8217;s done it because he is a brilliant candidate &#8211; but he&#8217;s been assisted by a very impressive team headed by his formidable campaign strategist David [&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-934","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\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}