{"id":475,"date":"2012-06-19T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=475"},"modified":"2012-06-19T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:45:58","slug":"romneys-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/19\/romneys-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Battleground Audition Tour: Every Veep Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=18810&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>FRANKENMUTH, Mich. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c When Mitt Romney travels to Wisconsin, people tell him to choose the Badger State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate.\u00c2\u00a0 In Ohio, they urge him to pick their senator, Rob Portman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I get a very biased audience depending on the state I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told reporters on a flight from Iowa to Michigan on the eve of the last day of his six-state \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every Town Counts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bus tour through key battleground states.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romney has campaigned with all four officials in the past, but not since the vice presidential vetting process has begun.\u00c2\u00a0On this tour, the scrutiny was intense and Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bus companions played it safe. There was no going off script and no attempt to divert the spotlight from the man who may one day be their running mate.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-s-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts-20120619\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-s-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts-20120619\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-s-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts-20120619<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKENMUTH, Mich. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c When Mitt Romney travels to Wisconsin, people tell him to choose the Badger State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate.\u00c2\u00a0 In Ohio, they urge him to pick their senator, Rob Portman. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I get a very biased audience depending on the state I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/19\/romneys-battleground-audition-tour-every-veep-counts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Battleground Audition Tour: Every Veep Counts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,204],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-sarah-huisenga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-7F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}