{"id":148,"date":"2003-11-10T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/campaign_spin\/"},"modified":"2003-11-10T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T16:49:33","slug":"campaign_spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/campaign_spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Howard Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&#038;id=10389&#038;news_iv_ctrl=1301\">declared &#8220;independence from special interests.&#8221;<\/a>  What does that mean?  It means that by not taking public financing Dean, will be able to spend as much as he wants campaigning.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not necessarily criticizing this decision; it&#8217;s probably a smart campaign move.  But it is another amusing example of the way campaigns spin things.  Somehow a decision to spend as much money as it takes is &#8220;independence from special interests.&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaking of campaign funding, Atrios reproduces <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_11_09_atrios_archive.html#106843931036976104\">a chart<\/a> breaking down the money given to each candidate by donor amount.  All of the candidates have received at least 75% of their funding from $1,000+ donors except Braun, Clark, Dean, and Kucinich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/campaign_spin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Campaign Spin\"><p>This weekend Howard Dean declared &#8220;independence from special interests.&#8221; What does that mean? It means that by not taking public financing Dean, will be able to spend as much as he wants campaigning. I&#8217;m not necessarily criticizing this decision; it&#8217;s probably a smart campaign move. But it is another amusing example of the way campaigns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}