{"id":705,"date":"2008-03-29T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/29\/how-much-is-that-sd-in-the-window\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T12:52:41","slug":"how-much-is-that-sd-in-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/29\/how-much-is-that-sd-in-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much is that SD In the Window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/31905.html\">political values at work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A] study by the Center for Responsive Politics concludes that campaign contributions have become a fairly reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take.<\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s good news for Obama. Since 2005, his PAC has donated $710,900 to superdelegates, more than three times as much as Clinton&#8217;s PAC has. Her PAC distributed $236,100 to superdelegates during the three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that the presidential candidate who gave more money to the superdelegates received their endorsements 82 percent of the time. That&#8217;s based on a review of elected officials who are serving as superdelegates and who&#8217;d endorsed a candidate as of Feb. 25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just one of many reason I&#8217;m much more careful with my political giving than I used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t give money to buy votes, even for candidates I&#8217;m otherwise supporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, our political values at work: [A] study by the Center for Responsive Politics concludes that campaign contributions have become a fairly reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take. And if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s good news for Obama. Since 2005, his PAC has donated $710,900 to superdelegates, more than three times as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}