{"id":9154,"date":"2012-03-02T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:58:54","slug":"poll-a-brokered-2012-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9154","title":{"rendered":"POLL: A Brokered 2012 GOP Convention?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t tell you how bored I am with the current, endless, ridiculous, if occasionally hilarious, GOP nomination process. Oops, I just did.<\/p>\n

So with that, I’ll note here that I’ve been predicting<\/a> for months — long before anybody seemed to be mentioning it (as I now hear it more and more each day), and when I was even ridiculed for the suggestion — that there was a better than 50% chance we’d see a brokered GOP convention in Tampa<\/a> this August. I have long been further suggesting<\/a> that there was also a better than 50% chance that the ultimate nominee would be someone other than the 10 or so lead candidates running at the time of my original prediction.<\/p>\n

I see no reason to modify any of those fairly conservative and, I think, pretty reasonable, predictions now. But let’s see what you guys think. We can look back at your thoughts once the convention rolls around…<\/p>\n

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I can’t tell you how bored I am with the current, endless, ridiculous, if occasionally hilarious, GOP nomination process. Oops, I just did. So with that, I’ll note here that I’ve been predicting for months — long before anybody seemed to be mentioning it (as I now hear it more and more each day), and […]<\/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":[196,400,300,295],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog-poll","category-election-2012","category-republicans","category-rnc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","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=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}