{"id":3835,"date":"2010-02-21T00:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2010-02-21T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:10:52","slug":"ron-paul-wins-cpac-straw-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ron-paul-wins-cpac-straw-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/33225.html\">Boos as Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll<\/a>. Paul 31%, Romney 22%, Palin 7% and Pawlenty 6%. Obviously straw polls don&#8217;t matter. The only reason this is news is because the enthusiasm of Ron Paul supporters carried the day again in a circumstance where intensity trumps genuine broad appeal, upending expectations. So perhaps someone who knows more about political organization can explain this to me: <b>why don&#8217;t they just rig straw polls so that no one is surprised and the establishment is happy?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boos as Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll. Paul 31%, Romney 22%, Palin 7% and Pawlenty 6%. Obviously straw polls don&#8217;t matter. The only reason this is news is because the enthusiasm of Ron Paul supporters carried the day again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ron-paul-wins-cpac-straw-poll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}