{"id":7932,"date":"2012-11-08T04:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2012-11-08T05:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:31:54","slug":"heckuva-job-akin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/heckuva-job-akin\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva Job, Akin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mike-Callton.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mike-Callton-300x252.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Todd Akin\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mike-Callton-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mike-Callton.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Medieval obstetrics expert Congressman Todd Akin crashed to humiliating defeat in his attempt to unseat Missouri&#8217;s Senataor Claire McCaskill.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/she-the-people\/wp\/2012\/11\/07\/claire-mccaskill-legitimately-shuts-down-todd-akin-in-missouri-senate-race\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCaskill had 54.7 percent of the vote, Akin 39.2 percent and the Libertarian candidate Jonathan Dine 6.1 percent&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By staying in the race this grotesquely selfish man threw away what should have been a GOP senate gain and, while he was at it, further tarnished a Republican national campaign already scarred by the earlier success of Rick Santorum.<\/p>\n<p>What a disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval obstetrics expert Congressman Todd Akin crashed to humiliating defeat in his attempt to unseat Missouri&#8217;s Senataor Claire McCaskill. The Washington Post reports: McCaskill had 54.7 percent of the vote, Akin 39.2 percent and the Libertarian candidate Jonathan Dine 6.1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/heckuva-job-akin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[740,55,959,280,958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7979,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}