{"id":861,"date":"2008-01-10T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/richardson-to-deadpool-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T16:33:24","slug":"richardson-to-deadpool-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/richardson-to-deadpool-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to Deadpool 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center>Former Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/richardson.jpg\" alt=\"Former Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>I started the <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/deadpool-2008\/\">Deadpool 2008<\/a> earlier this month focusing on the candidates who drop out vs. the front-runners. Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/09\/richardson.out\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" >CNN is reporting that Bill Richardson is dropping his bid for the nomination<\/a> after distant 4th place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. I definitely understand why these candidates are dropping out, but if we stop to consider that less than 0.5% of the electorate has spoken, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if it&#8217;s too early to make the call.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nClearly it&#8217;s a money and time issue. I do appreciate that we&#8217;ve got some variety in the candidate pool this time. Now if only the coverage would focus on issues and plans vs. emotional showings from front-runners&#8230;Who&#8217;s next? Leave a comment and speculate.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson I started the Deadpool 2008 earlier this month focusing on the candidates who drop out vs. the front-runners. Today, CNN is reporting that Bill Richardson is dropping his bid for the nomination after distant 4th place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. I definitely understand why these candidates are dropping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}