{"id":1897,"date":"2008-01-07T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2008-01-07T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T16:48:53","slug":"hillary-dropping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Dropping Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\">Matt Drudge reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden <a href=\"http:\/\/rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/daily_presidential_tracking_poll\">collapse in national polls<\/a> and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?! <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She can&#8217;t take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada,&quot; laments one top campaign insider to the DRUDGE REPORT. &quot;If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn&#8217;t want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary &quot;could soon be out.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Her money is going to dry up,&quot; Edwards confided, a top source said Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>MORE<\/p>\n<p>Key players in Clinton&#8217;s inner circle are said to be split. James Carville is urging her to fight it out through at least February and Super Tuesday, where she has a shot at thwarting Barack Obama in a big state. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She did not work this hard to get out after one state! All this talk is nonsense,&quot; said one top adviser. <\/p>\n<p>But others close to the former first lady now see no possible road to victory, sources claim.    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Drudge reports: Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?! &quot;She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1897\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}