{"id":1450,"date":"2003-07-16T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T07:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/16\/dean-support-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:28:25","slug":"dean-support-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/16\/dean-support-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean support in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14147,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/2003-07-17\\\/city4.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/2003-07-17\\\/city4.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14148,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000702.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of the Stranger, I just happened across an article that looks at the ever-growing support for Howard Dean (and John Kerry) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/2003-07-17\/city4.html\" title=\"Dean Machine\">here in Washington State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Dean has also won the support of former state party chair Karen Marchioro, who says she went to the annual meeting of the Democratic National Committee in February as a Kerry supporter, but was won over to Dean after hearing his fiery speech and after meeting him personally. She sees a regional divide in the party, with Left Coast insiders more amenable to Dean&#8217;s call for a head-on confrontation with the Bush administration and its policies. She recently attended a California party convention where hordes of party insiders expressed support for Dean&#8217;s candidacy after hearing him speak, she says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Due to my work schedule, I haven&#8217;t been able to show up at any of the local Dean meetups or gatherings, unfortunately &#8212; they&#8217;re all scheduled for Wednesday evenings when I&#8217;m at work. Dean is supposed to be here himself on Monday, August 25^th^, though, as part of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/000702.html\" title=\"People-Powered Howard Sleepless Summer Tour\">People-Powered Howard Sleepless Summer Tour<\/a>&#8220;, and I may just see if I can escape from work early that day to show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean is supposed to be here himself  on Monday, August 25th, though, as part of the &#8216;People-Powered Howard Sleepless Summer Tour&#8217;, and I may just see if I can escape from work early that day to show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}