{"id":245,"date":"2004-08-19T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=245"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"jindal_one_step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/jindal_one_step\/","title":{"rendered":"Jindal one step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race in Louisiana&#8217;s 1st Congressional District.  That means that Republican Bobby Jindal&#8217;s chances of being elected to Congress are that much greater.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/upi-breaking\/20040819-030312-9874r.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Washinton Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nWithout Scalise in the race, analysts say, the chances Jindal will be elected outright in the Nov. 2 primary without the need for a runoff are much more likely.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Why did Scalise drop out?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/2004\/Jul\/06\/5967_869925,001600060001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a partial explainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>I, like many in the left, can&#8217;t stomach much of Jindal&#8217;s politics, but the guy seems to be making all the right moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race in Louisiana&#8217;s 1st Congressional District. That means that Republican Bobby Jindal&#8217;s chances of being elected to Congress are that much greater. From the Washinton Times: Without Scalise in the race, analysts say, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/jindal_one_step\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}