{"id":55,"date":"2012-05-16T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-05-16T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:17:49","slug":"nebraska-prepare-yourself-for-stories-about-sarah-palin-kingmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/16\/nebraska-prepare-yourself-for-stories-about-sarah-palin-kingmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska: Prepare Yourself for Stories About Sarah Palin, Kingmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Deb Fischer <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/files\/elections\/2012\/by_state\/NE_US_Senate_0515.html?SITE=CSPANELN&amp;SECTION=POLITICS\">has won the Republican primary<\/a> for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, making her the odds-on favorite to replace Ben Nelson. What you will hear: <em>Sarah Palin endorsed a Mama Grizzly and pushed her over the top<\/em>. The larger backstory: Fischer benefitted from a yearlong, bloody, stupid primary between state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2012\/05\/03\/jon-bruning-loves-eric-holder-ronald-reagan-and-the-boy-scouts-not-exactly\/\">Attorney General Jon Bruning<\/a> and Treasurer Don Stenberg. The former, working his way up the greasy pole for years, had spooked Chuck Hagel out of running for re-election in 2008, then gotten chased out of the primary by then-Agriculture Sec. Mike Johanns. The latter had lined up conservative support &#8212; Jim DeMint, Rick Santorum, Erick Erickson. The two of them tore chunks out of each other, leaving Fischer alone. So it goes with the three-way race.<\/p>\n<p>via Slate Blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/weigel\/2012\/05\/16\/nebraska_prepare_yourself_for_stories_about_sarah_palin_kingmaker.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/weigel\/2012\/05\/16\/nebraska_prepare_yourself_for_stories_about_sarah_palin_kingmaker.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, making her the odds-on favorite to replace Ben Nelson. What you will hear: Sarah Palin endorsed a Mama Grizzly and pushed her over the top. The larger backstory: Fischer benefitted from a yearlong, bloody, stupid primary between state Attorney General Jon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/16\/nebraska-prepare-yourself-for-stories-about-sarah-palin-kingmaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nebraska: Prepare Yourself for Stories About Sarah Palin, Kingmaker&#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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}