{"id":1646,"date":"2008-05-05T21:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2009-03-01T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T05:10:06","slug":"1640-of-jindal-is-on-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"[1640] Of Jindal is on the list!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McCain campaign is adding spices into the US Presidential race by mentioning Jindal&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That reversal of a three-point McCain lead to a six-point deficit for the McCain ticket suggests what might happen (a) when the Democrats unite, and (b) if McCain were to choose a conventional running mate, who, as it were, reinforced the Republican brand for the ticket. As the McCain aide put it, this is what will happen if we run a traditional campaign; our numbers will gradually regress toward the (losing) generic Republican number.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They\u2019re tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/05\/opinion\/05kristol.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>McCain-Jindal?<\/em><\/a> William Kristol. New York Times. May 5 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is Jindal?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1423\" target=\"_self\">young governor of Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If McCain picks Jindal as his running mate, the Republican Party may have found their answer to Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McCain campaign is adding spices into the US Presidential race by mentioning Jindal&#8217;s name. That reversal of a three-point McCain lead to a six-point deficit for the McCain ticket suggests what might happen (a) when the Democrats unite, and (b) if McCain were to choose a conventional running mate, who, as it were, reinforced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-bobby-jindal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}