{"id":1411,"date":"2012-10-23T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:49:17","slug":"what-the-veep-smackdown-tells-us-about-tonights-debate-ricochet-com-10-16-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/23\/what-the-veep-smackdown-tells-us-about-tonights-debate-ricochet-com-10-16-12\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Veep Smackdown Tells Us About Tonight&#8217;s Debate | Ricochet.com | 10.16.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since March, the lead in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll \u2013 perhaps the country\u2019s most reliable poll \u2013 has switched more than thirty times.\u00a0 It could happen again.<\/p>\n<p>The president has said he was \u201ctoo polite\u201d last time.\u00a0 I say that if that is what he believes he did wrong in the first debate and he plans to channel his inner Biden in this one, bring it on.\u00a0 Rage and rudeness are exactly what the American people detest in candidates.<\/p>\n<p>That does not sound like a warning, I know. And it is true that a president who once used a TelePrompter to address school children may not have it in him to deliver a formidable performance in the give and take of a debate.<\/p>\n<p>But in the instability of this race and the president\u2019s clearly formidable reelection machinery, Yogi Berra\u2019s warning about baseball applies.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t over \u2018til it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since March, the lead in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll \u2013 perhaps the country\u2019s most reliable poll \u2013 has switched more than thirty times.\u00a0 It could happen again. The president has said he was \u201ctoo polite\u201d last time.\u00a0 I say that if that is what he believes he did wrong in the first debate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[42,52,77,87],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicalcommentary-campaign-2012","tag-2012-election","tag-campaign","tag-election-2012","tag-ricochet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}