{"id":990,"date":"2016-02-02T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=990"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:54:14","slug":"cruz-victory-but-a-long-month-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Cruz victory but a long month coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well now. \u00a0Cruz wins Iowa after taking a political assault the likes I haven&#8217;t seen since Reagan&#8217;s day. \u00a0The only thing that *really* surprised me was Rubio finishing as close to Trump as he did.<\/p>\n<p>That is actually the most &#8211; if not only &#8211; important result of this caucus. \u00a0It pretty much puts the nails in the coffin for the Bush campaign. \u00a0Rubio is definitely the establishment choice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to expect New Hampshire to be much the same with Cruz and Trump trading places. \u00a0At this point though, you have to consider the possibility &#8211; slight, but still a finite possibility &#8211; that Rubio could take NH. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think it will happen, but you can bet the establishment is thinking this way.<\/p>\n<p>The end result? \u00a0Unless Bush has a major comeback in NH, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he drops out soon with Huckabee and the other 1% crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now. \u00a0Cruz wins Iowa after taking a political assault the likes I haven&#8217;t seen since Reagan&#8217;s day. \u00a0The only thing that *really* surprised me was Rubio finishing as close to Trump as he did. That is actually the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,153,51,56,57,100,205,204,203,115,202],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-cruz","tag-current-events","tag-election","tag-election-2016","tag-politics-2","tag-primaries","tag-primary","tag-republicans","tag-tea-party","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-fY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}