{"id":4134,"date":"2008-01-04T10:33:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/il-duces-rural-electrification-program-unsuccessful\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:43:57","slug":"il-duces-rural-electrification-program-unsuccessful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/il-duces-rural-electrification-program-unsuccessful\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Duce&#8217;s Rural Electrification Program Unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe the spin about Giuliani writing Iowa off. Nick Bradley looks at campaign appearances vs. votes and finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/blog\/lewrw\/archives\/018233.html\">Giuliani came in a dismal sixth place, with only 4,000 votes for his 35 appearances<\/a>. Antiwar and pro-civil liberties candidate Ron Paul, on the other hand, mustered almost three times as many votes with only 75% of Giuliani&#8217;s campaign events, putting him second only to Huckabee in votes per event.<\/p>\n<p>Will Fox News now reconsider its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/fnc\/shep_asks_should_fox_news_reconsider_74205.asp?c=rss\">ridiculous exclusion of Rep. Paul<\/a> from Sunday night&#8217;s forum?<\/p>\n<p>(For title reference, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110010344\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/finally-an-alternative-to-peace-and-freedom\/\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/07\/18\/randy-barnett-and-the-iraq-war\/\">this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Oh, and as for the title, as Michael Brendan Dougherty puts it, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/surfeited.net\/blog\/if-the-bandolier-fits.html\">If the bandolier fits\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe the spin about Giuliani writing Iowa off. Nick Bradley looks at campaign appearances vs. votes and finds that Giuliani came in a dismal sixth place, with only 4,000 votes for his 35 appearances. Antiwar and pro-civil liberties candidate Ron Paul, on the other hand, mustered almost three times as many votes with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}