{"id":597,"date":"2004-02-07T01:10:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/favorite_son_clout\/"},"modified":"2004-02-07T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T06:10:12","slug":"favorite_son_clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/favorite_son_clout\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Son Clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Al Gore still has a few fences to mend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/election\/article\/0,1406,KNS_630_2636682,00.html\">Gore&#8217;s support little help in Tenn.<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nEndorsement did not increase candidate&#8217;s poll numbers here<br \/>\nHoward Dean can claim Al Gore&#8217;s endorsement, but the dispiriting reality for the fallen front-runner is that he may match the former vice president&#8217;s 2000 showing in Tennessee &#8211; a Gore loss in his home state.<br \/>\nThe Democratic presidential candidate is polling in single digits in advance of Tennessee&#8217;s primary Tuesday and has no plans to visit, choosing to look ahead to must-win Wisconsin and its Feb. 17 primary to salvage his campaign.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nThe 2000 Democratic presidential nominee has flown as far away as Iowa and Michigan to campaign for Dean, but has barely lifted a finger in the state that launched his political career, and where he teaches and maintains a home and a farm. He also has not helped Dean raise campaign money here.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nGore could not be reached for comment, and his aides declined to answer questions about the impact of his Dean endorsement in early December on the campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.  That Dean move isn&#8217;t looking so hot any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/favorite_son_clout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Favorite Son Clout\"><p>Looks like Al Gore still has a few fences to mend: &#8220;Gore&#8217;s support little help in Tenn.&#8221; Endorsement did not increase candidate&#8217;s poll numbers here Howard Dean can claim Al Gore&#8217;s endorsement, but the dispiriting reality for the fallen front-runner is that he may match the former vice president&#8217;s 2000 showing in Tennessee &#8211; a [&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-597","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\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}