{"id":10633,"date":"2007-04-27T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10633.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T13:35:15","slug":"modern-day-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/modern-day-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Modern day extinction’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a few bizarre questions in last night’s debate, but this exchange stood out.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Senator Biden, a question for you. A friend of mine who’s in the leadership of the Democratic party says that if the party goes down a third straight time, what will happen is what he defines as “modern day extinction” of the Democratic party. Putting yourself aside, perhaps, is there a winner on this stage tonight, and does your party have what it takes to reverse this trend and win the White House?<\/p>\n

SEN. BIDEN: Absolutely yes, there’s a winner. Taking myself out, I’m looking at a bunch of winners right here, number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, what’s Biden going to say? “No, we’re going to lose, all hope is lost”?<\/p>\n

Second, as I recall, the Democratic candidate got more votes than the Republican candidate in three of the last four presidential elections. And the fourth was pretty close. Reverse what<\/i> “trend”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were a few bizarre questions in last night’s debate, but this exchange stood out. WILLIAMS: Senator Biden, a question for you. A friend of mine who’s in the leadership of the Democratic party says that if the party goes down a third straight time, what will happen is what he defines as “modern day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}