{"id":246,"date":"2004-10-08T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=246"},"modified":"2004-10-08T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T04:12:09","slug":"bush-kerry-2-the-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Bush-Kerry 2:  The Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thought after the first debate was style (Kerry) vs. substance (Bush).  After the conclusion of this debate, I thought both improved in their weaker areas.  I felt Bush&#8217;s style improvements were dramatic in that he seemed awake.  Kerry held some more substance, but he&#8217;s still on the wrong side of too many of my views.  I&#8217;m quite certain that Kerry has a plan to change that.  If not, he&#8217;s got a plan to address the lack of the other plan.<\/p>\n<p>Slight Bush win, because Bush wasn&#8217;t just President Bush tonight, he was also Dubya.  And Dubya plays well in the vast distance between New England and California.  It should be noted that, at this point, a slight Bush win is a huge Bush win;  it&#8217;s the equivalent of grabbing back homefield advantage in a playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>I typed up a few questions that I want to run against the transcript, so a more thourough look later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thought after the first debate was style (Kerry) vs. substance (Bush). After the conclusion of this debate, I thought both improved in their weaker areas. I felt Bush&#8217;s style improvements were dramatic in that he seemed awake. Kerry held some more substance, but he&#8217;s still on the wrong side of too many of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-04","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}