{"id":637,"date":"2004-02-16T01:54:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T06:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/tipping_the_scales\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T01:54:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T06:54:04","slug":"tipping_the_scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/tipping_the_scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping the Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the prospect of running against a non-telegenic, patrician &#8220;Massachusetts liberal&#8221; wasn&#8217;t propping up Bush&#8217;s re-election chances enough, now comes <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2001857851_cdig14.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is poised to declare that he will seek the presidency again this year, this time as an independent and despite a vigorous effort by the left to dissuade him, according to friends and associates.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think there&#8217;s very little doubt,&#8221; said Micah Sifry, author of a book on third-party politics and a longtime Nader watcher. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s going to run.&#8221;<br \/>\nNader, blamed for tilting the 2000 election to President Bush by siphoning off votes from Al Gore, twice has delayed saying whether he would be a candidate, but insiders expect the declaration next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, if Nader enables Bush to win re-election, everything the independent is supposedly running for goes out the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/tipping_the_scales\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tipping the Scales\"><p>If the prospect of running against a non-telegenic, patrician &#8220;Massachusetts liberal&#8221; wasn&#8217;t propping up Bush&#8217;s re-election chances enough, now comes this: Former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is poised to declare that he will seek the presidency again this year, this time as an independent and despite a vigorous effort by the left to dissuade [&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-637","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\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}