{"id":635,"date":"2004-02-15T07:13:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/end_of_the_road_for_dean\/"},"modified":"2004-02-15T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T12:13:30","slug":"end_of_the_road_for_dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/end_of_the_road_for_dean\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Road for Dean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind-the-scenes activity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/articles\/2004\/02\/14\/dean_bid_shows_signs_of_ending\/\">suggests so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the former Vermont governor, who for months led polls in the race for the Democratic nomination, says he will continue campaigning regardless of the results of the Wisconsin primary &#8212; which polls indicate he is likely to lose by a significant margin &#8212; his actions are beginning to say otherwise.<br \/>\nHis calendar for next week is not booked beyond Wednesday, when he plans to return home to Burlington, Vt.<br \/>\nHis staff, some of whom are already planning to leave his headquarters for good on Wednesday, has not sought a new contract with the main air charter company that has been flying him around the country, aides say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this turns out to be the case, there&#8217;s only one remaining candidate who can challenge Kerry.  Let&#8217;s hope he will; an untested, unvetted Kerry could be disaster for the Democrats this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/end_of_the_road_for_dean\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to End of the Road for Dean?\"><p>Behind-the-scenes activity suggests so: Though the former Vermont governor, who for months led polls in the race for the Democratic nomination, says he will continue campaigning regardless of the results of the Wisconsin primary &#8212; which polls indicate he is likely to lose by a significant margin &#8212; his actions are beginning to say otherwise. [&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-635","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\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}