{"id":1055,"date":"2008-09-15T15:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2008-09-15T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:36:20","slug":"no-one-wants-to-play-with-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"No One Wants To Play With John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an illustration of how shallow the media analysis is of the so-called “Palin Effect.”<\/em> a picture is indeed worth a thousand words:<\/p>\n

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Here are 68 words from the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Republican presidential nominee John McCain held his first rally without running mate Sarah Palin<\/strong> today, and let’s just say there were seats available.<\/span><\/p>\n

The McCain “Road to Victory” rally was originally scheduled to be a pancake breakfast, but the campaign said there was such an outpouring of enthusiasm the event was shifted to the 15,000-seat Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n

That might not have been the best idea.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously the “outpouring of enthusiasm”<\/em> didn’t pour out as advertised. We’ll see how many appearances McCain makes without his lucky charm from here on out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an illustration of how shallow the media analysis is of the so-called “Palin Effect.” a picture is indeed worth a thousand words: Here are 68 words from the Washington Post: Republican presidential nominee John McCain held his first rally without running mate Sarah Palin today, and let’s just say there were seats available. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[103,381],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-john-mccain","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-h1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1071,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1071","url_meta":{"origin":1055,"position":0},"title":"This Week With John McCain","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/29\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems fitting that John McCain sat down with George Stephanopoulos yesterday on a program called \"This Week,\" because the name itself carries the suggestion that what you hear McCain say will only be operative for a limited time. 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