{"id":249,"date":"2008-01-20T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-08-12T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:43:43","slug":"impact-of-mccain-sc-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Impact of McCain S.C. Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of the John McCain win in New Hampshire and now South Carolina makes the race for the Republican nomination even more interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Offset by Romney&#8217;s win in Nevada, it still leaves the current leaderboard effectively a three-way tie.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, Romney has nearly 30% more delegates than his nearest competitor, all still have far less than 100 each and need 1191 delegates in order to lock.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus when you see Romney has 59 to Huckabee&#8217;s 39 or McCain&#8217;s paltry 36, even that 59 pales in comparison to the 1191 that Romney needs in order to win it.\u00c2\u00a0 So, as they say, the race is wide open and it looks like Super Tuesday (and maybe Illinois???) have a chance to decide it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the leaderboard as of now:<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney 59<\/p>\n<p>Mike Huckabee 39<\/p>\n<p>John McCain 36<\/p>\n<p>Fred Thompson 5<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul 4<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Hunter 2<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Guliani 1<\/p>\n<p>The remaining candidates have zero delegates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of the John McCain win in New Hampshire and now South Carolina makes the race for the Republican nomination even more interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Offset by Romney&#8217;s win in Nevada, it still leaves the current leaderboard effectively a three-way tie.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, Romney has nearly 30% more delegates than his nearest competitor, all still have far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}