{"id":4156,"date":"2008-01-30T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/three-cheers-for-three-percent\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:35:42","slug":"three-cheers-for-three-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/three-cheers-for-three-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for Three Percent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed that Ron Paul only got 3% of the votes in yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Florida primary.\u00c2\u00a0 The trendline for his vote\u00c2\u00a0 percentages in most of\u00c2\u00a0elections since Iowa has been downward.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think Ron Paul is doing great in the debates and in broadcast interviews.\u00c2\u00a0 But his campaign seems gun-shy about\u00c2\u00a0stressing Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stalwart position on the Iraq war.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the ads the campaign is paying to run\u00c2\u00a0 have <strong>the punching power of wet noodles<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The Paul campaign has lately made far more effort stressing Paul&#8217;s devotion to veterans than his opposition to the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Did the dropout of Dennis Kucinich from the presidential race end any chance for a fervent delivery of the antiwar message to the American people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed that Ron Paul only got 3% of the votes in yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Florida primary.\u00c2\u00a0 The trendline for his vote\u00c2\u00a0 percentages in most of\u00c2\u00a0elections since Iowa has been downward.\u00c2\u00a0 I think Ron Paul is doing great in the debates and in broadcast interviews.\u00c2\u00a0 But his campaign seems gun-shy about\u00c2\u00a0stressing Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stalwart position on the [&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-4156","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\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}