{"id":5512,"date":"2008-01-03T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2008-01-03T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:28:54","slug":"o-mentum-mike-mentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5512","title":{"rendered":"O-Mentum! \/ Mike-Mentum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ObamaHuckabee.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Obama wins for the D&#8217;s, Huckabee wins for the R&#8217;s. Consider this an Iowa horse race Open Thread, as you wish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For my part, I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to open it up with a few bragging rights, along with a simultaneous warning to those who think Huckabee will be easy for the D&#8217;s to beat if he were to win the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Back in <em>January<\/em> of &#8217;07, after seeing Huckabee interviewed for the first time (on <em>The Daily Show<\/em>), <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4036\">I wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8230;on the Republican side, I might suggest one of the dark horses that Democrats should be most concerned about is Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. His recent appearance on <em>The Daily Show<\/em> may give you an idea why. That is, if he can make it through the hard right phony &#8220;conservative&#8221; hurdles of the primary process.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Show&#8217;s Huckabee Interview on Vid here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/player.jhtml?ml_video=80701&#038;ml_collection=&#038;ml_gateway=&#038;ml_gateway_id=&#038;ml_comedian=&#038;ml_runtime=&#038;ml_context=show&#038;ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Fvideos%2Fmost_recent%2Findex.jhtml&#038;ml_playlist=&#038;lnk=&#038;is_large=true\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/player.jhtml?ml_video=80699&#038;ml_collection=&#038;ml_gateway=&#038;ml_gateway_id=&#038;ml_comedian=&#038;ml_runtime=&#038;ml_context=show&#038;ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Fvideos%2Fmost_recent%2Findex.jhtml&#038;ml_playlist=&#038;lnk=&#038;is_large=true\">Part 2<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>I stand by that prediction, and think Dems would be foolish to <em>misunderestimate<\/em> Huckabee. Period. Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama wins for the D&#8217;s, Huckabee wins for the R&#8217;s. Consider this an Iowa horse race Open Thread, as you wish&#8230; For my part, I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to open it up with a few bragging rights, along with a simultaneous warning to those who think Huckabee will be easy for the D&#8217;s to beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,122,74,202,115],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-iowa","category-mike-huckabee","category-open-thread","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}