{"id":2060,"date":"2004-07-06T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T13:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2060.html"},"modified":"2004-07-06T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T13:13:23","slug":"kerry-edwards-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kerry-edwards-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry-Edwards 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event that you check The Carpetbagger Report before other news outlets, I thought I&#8217;d mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20040706_323.html\">John Kerry has chosen John Edwards<\/a> as his running mate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Kerry selected former rival John Edwards to be his running mate, picking the smooth-talking Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigor and small-town appeal to the Democratic presidential ticket, The Associated Press learned Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry planned to announce his pick by e-mail to supporters, then at a rally in Pittsburgh. He settled on Edwards on Monday night, said two senior Democrats who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t be more pleased. This is a winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>For more on why Edwards is the best choice, be sure to read The Gadflyer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gadflyer.com\/articles\/?ArticleID=151\">Tom Schaller&#8217;s piece<\/a> about this from late last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event that you check The Carpetbagger Report before other news outlets, I thought I&#8217;d mention that John Kerry has chosen John Edwards as his running mate. John Kerry selected former rival John Edwards to be his running mate, picking the smooth-talking Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigor [&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-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}