{"id":1409,"date":"2004-03-16T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1409.html"},"modified":"2004-03-16T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T16:42:26","slug":"clark-is-still-on-the-campaign-trail-for-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clark-is-still-on-the-campaign-trail-for-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark is still on the campaign trail for Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on an idea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001353.html\">I raised<\/a> two weeks ago, I&#8217;ve noticed that Wesley Clark, unlike other former Kerry rivals, is still being utilized by the Kerry campaign as a key surrogate.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/localnews\/content\/localnews\/daily\/0315cheney.html\">Clark is in Ohio<\/a> today, a critically important state with 20 electoral votes. He&#8217;ll be speaking on Kerry&#8217;s behalf at an annual event for the Montgomery County Democratic Party in Ohio&#8217;s vote-rich Miami Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s Ohio appearance comes after Kerry dispatched the former general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\/pressroom\/releases\/pr_2004_0225e.html\">to Georgia<\/a> the week of the state&#8217;s Super Tuesday primary and asked Clark to appear on his behalf at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjonline.com\/stories\/030204\/loc_clarktop.shtml\">a meeting of the Kansas Democratic Party<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>As I said a couple weeks ago, this may or may not be significant. But I can&#8217;t help but wonder if Kerry is testing Clark&#8217;s VP appeal by sending him to several key locations to see how performs.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Kerry has eight other former rivals for the Dem nomination, but Clark&#8217;s the only one being sent around the country to campaign for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on an idea I raised two weeks ago, I&#8217;ve noticed that Wesley Clark, unlike other former Kerry rivals, is still being utilized by the Kerry campaign as a key surrogate. For example, Clark is in Ohio today, a critically important state with 20 electoral votes. He&#8217;ll be speaking on Kerry&#8217;s behalf [&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-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}