{"id":4870,"date":"2008-10-23T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-concedes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:18:48","slug":"mccain-concedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-concedes\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Concedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ap.google.com\\\/article\\\/ALeqM5gFLcYcvYdfpj-bFNDo5ARpiRL1kQD940DEPO1&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;},{&quot;id&quot;:4924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/storyonly\\\/2008\\\/10\\\/23\\\/153446\\\/90\\\/696\\\/640024&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/storyonly\\\/2008\\\/10\\\/23\\\/153446\\\/90\\\/696\\\/640024&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gFLcYcvYdfpj-bFNDo5ARpiRL1kQD940DEPO1\" title=\"AP: McCain might skip his own election-night party\">this bit of news<\/a> earlier today&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  John McCain&#8217;s election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel&#8217;s lawn.<\/p>\n<p>  Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I had the same thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/10\/23\/153446\/90\/696\/640024\">Daily Kos does here<\/a>: he&#8217;s throwing in the towel. Since my vote went to Obama, I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m disappointed&#8230;but how must his campaign staffers, who still have twelve days to go before the election, feel about this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  McCain knows he&#8217;s going down, we get that. But there are supporters of his that are still busting their ass, and he&#8217;s basically telling them that he doesn&#8217;t give a flying fuck. It&#8217;s a breathtaking insult to his staff, to his volunteers, to his party, and even to America. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the bulk of his audience will be watching him on the television, he owes his people (and even the nation), one last rally.<\/p>\n<p>  So this is how the cowardly McCain wishes to go out &#8212; not with a bang, but with a whimper.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this bit of news earlier today, I had the same thought that Daily Kos does here: he&#8217;s throwing in the towel. Since my vote went to Obama, I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m disappointed&#8230;but how must his campaign staffers, who still have twelve days to go before the election, feel about this?<\/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":[470,14],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-john-mccain","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}