{"id":1082,"date":"2003-04-07T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T19:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/07\/top-three\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:40:07","slug":"top-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/07\/top-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Top three"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards2004.com\/\" title=\"Welcome\">Edwards<\/a>: \\$7.4 million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\">Kerry<\/a>: \\$7 million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickgephardt2004.com\/\" title=\"Welcome to DickGephardt2004.com\">Gephardt<\/a>: \\$3.6 million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joe2004.com\/index.jsp\" title=\"Joe Lieberman for President 2004\">Lieberman<\/a>: \\$3 million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/\" title=\"Dean for America\">Dean<\/a>: \\$2.6 million<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>  The rest of the candidates are too embarrassed to release their numbers until they absolutely have to (April 15th).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of interesting back and forth in the comments thread to that post, too. From the looks of it, the three top contenders right now are (in no particular order) Dean, Edwards, and Kerry. So far, between Dean and Kerry, I&#8217;d definitely go for Dean, but I really should take a closer look at Edwards to see what I think of him.<\/p>\n<p>Sidenotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean managed to beat his fundrasing goal by <a href=\"http:\/\/deancalltoaction.blogspot.com\/2003_03_30_deancalltoaction_archive.html#91869733\" title=\"Dean tops 2.6 million\">around 70%<\/a>. <em>Very<\/em> impressive showing.<\/li>\n<li>Kerry&#8217;s site doesn&#8217;t seem to load in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\" title=\"Apple - Safari\">Safari<\/a>. Might impact the &#8220;mac vote&#8221; (which, I&#8217;m sure, is a demographic that all the presidential contenders are worried about).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interesting back and forth in the comments thread to that post, too. From the looks of it, the three top contenders right now are (in no particular order) Dean, Edwards, and Kerry. So far, between Dean and Kerry, I&#8217;d definitely go for Dean, but I really should take a closer look at Edwards to see what I think of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}