{"id":1561,"date":"2004-02-22T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/its_official_go\/"},"modified":"2004-02-22T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T17:34:18","slug":"its_official_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/its_official_go\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official:  GOP Ugliest Campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP has a greater (if that\u2019s the right word) history of going negative in campaigns, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A61124-2004Feb21.html\">according to a study<\/a> by a University of Mississippi professor.  During the last 50 years, we were more likely to see attacks on a candidate\u2019s character from the GOP than the Dems by a margin of 44-33%.  That\u2019s hardly a ringing endorsement of the Dems.  Eleven percent difference!  But in the stolen 2000 election, the Bushies directed 43% of its attacks on Gore\u2019s character while the Dems did only 16% character assignation ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP has a greater (if that\u2019s the right word) history of going negative in campaigns, according to a study by a University of Mississippi professor. During the last 50 years, we were more likely to see attacks on a candidate\u2019s character from the GOP than the Dems by a margin of 44-33%. That\u2019s hardly&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/22\/its_official_go\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}