{"id":6333,"date":"2008-08-29T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2008-08-29T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:40:54","slug":"mccain-appears-to-have-picked-sarah-palin-as-vp-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6333","title":{"rendered":"McCain Appears to Have Picked Sarah Palin as VP Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n[<em><b>UPDATE 7:39am PT:<\/b> NBC News&#8217; Kelly O&#8217;Donnell has confirmed that McCain has picked Palin.<\/em>]\n<p>No less a source than Fox News says this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/08\/29\/mccain-to-name-running-mate-on-friday\/\">is en route to Ohio<\/a> this morning, and is likely to be John McCain choice to be his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Fox also reports that  former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is out of the running. Meanwhile, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told a local radio station this morning that <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jihHrCRRZzC-rvT1HKiq81CPPoiQD92RUQKO0\">he will not be in Ohio<\/a> later today when John McCain names his vice presidential running mate. <\/p>\n<p>About Palin, Fox reports that &#8220;a charter aircraft from Anchorage had arrived in Dayton, Ohio, where McCain has scheduled a noon ET rally to announce his choice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, because the source is Fox News, the story about Palin could be disinformation sent out by the McCain campaign <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. [UPDATE 7:39am PT: NBC News&#8217; Kelly O&#8217;Donnell has confirmed that McCain has picked Palin.] No less a source than Fox News says this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is en route to Ohio this morning, and is likely to be John McCain choice to be his running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,122,252,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-election-2008","category-john-mccain","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}