{"id":4141,"date":"2008-01-09T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T21:45:25","slug":"nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/nh-voters-thought-mccain-opposed-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"NH Voters Thought McCain Opposed the Iraq War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday&#8217;s New Hampshire primary and found that &#8220;<strong>among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S. withdrawal in the Republican field.&#8221; (hat <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/01\/09\/10000-years-mccain-wins-anti-war-gop-vote\/\">tip to Think Progress<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps such voters did not realize the temporal difference between exiting Iraq\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;now&#8221; (in Ron Paul&#8217;s case) versus 10,000 years from now (in McCain&#8217;s case, according to his comment on CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation last week).<\/p>\n<p>McCain has rarely missed a chance to grovel at Bush&#8217;s feet to support the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Why were so many voters who claimed to oppose the war\u00c2\u00a0so ignorant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday&#8217;s New Hampshire primary and found that &#8220;among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S. withdrawal in the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4141","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\/4141","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}