{"id":2691,"date":"2008-01-03T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/cnn-declares-obama-the-winner-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:35:00","slug":"cnn-declares-obama-the-winner-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/cnn-declares-obama-the-winner-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN declares Obama the winner in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R32bn8TQ7wI\/AAAAAAAAEYI\/7yqv2XbqhGg\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R32bn8TQ7wI\/AAAAAAAAEYI\/7yqv2XbqhGg\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151444659285847810\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/03\/iowa.caucuses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> is projecting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> will win the Iowa Caucus.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That doesn\u2019t have a huge impact on the campaign of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, who had downplayed the importance of victory in <st1:state st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:state>, has strong organizations in other states and has been the frontrunner in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, but it has huge consequences for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Edwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Edwards had bet everything on winning <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. If he finishes second \u2013 and he\u2019s currently barely holding on to that spot \u2013 he might be able to stay in the race through New Hampshire on Tuesday and see how he does there, but if he finishes third tonight in Iowa, he\u2019s going to have to think seriously about ending his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> might also be seriously thinking about ending his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is projecting that Barack Obama will win the Iowa Caucus. That doesn\u2019t have a huge impact on the campaign of Hillary Clinton, who had downplayed the importance of victory in Iowa, has strong organizations in other states and has been the frontrunner in New Hampshire, but it has huge consequences for John Edwards. Edwards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}