{"id":1068,"date":"2004-01-09T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1068.html"},"modified":"2004-01-09T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T19:57:44","slug":"harkin-endorses-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/harkin-endorses-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Harkin endorses Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, just finishing up the last post about Dean&#8217;s new-found predicament in Iowa, when I learn that Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/09\/elec04.prez.dean.harkin.ap\/index.html\">Tom Harkin has endorsed him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Dean was hoping for some good news to get him out of a jam, this was it. Harkin is Iowa&#8217;s most popular politician with a vast network of activists. His endorsement probaby means more than anyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way around it: this is a big deal &#8212; and a big boost &#8212; for Dean at a critical time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, just finishing up the last post about Dean&#8217;s new-found predicament in Iowa, when I learn that Sen. Tom Harkin has endorsed him. If Dean was hoping for some good news to get him out of a jam, this was it. Harkin is Iowa&#8217;s most popular politician with a vast network of activists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}