{"id":367,"date":"2008-01-25T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/25\/worm-man-florida-and-the-new-york-times"},"modified":"2008-01-25T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:33:00","slug":"worm-man-florida-and-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/worm-man-florida-and-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Worm Man, Florida, and the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alas, the bad news of the night is that Cornelius\u2019 master opus, Worm Man II: Fox Man Returns<\/a>, did not win the regional Reflections competition. However, Cornelius did manage to score four points in a basketball game, which constituted 40% of the total score. (His team won, 10-6.) Two of those points were free throws, which I found particularly impressive.<\/p>\n

Some promising Romney news \u2013 talked to my Romney guy who gave me the scoop in Iowa<\/a>, and he told me of some interesting doings in Florida. Apparently, a Florida bigwig was about to endorse McCain and then got cold feet when he saw how well Romney is doing. The same bigwig said that Florida historically makes up its mind fairly late, and usually goes with the candidate with the biggest ad buy, which is going to be Romney by a mile. Everyone behind the scenes has written off Giuliani altogether, and McCain is suffering from the fact that everyone likes him except Republicans. Thompson\u2019s voters are peeling off primarily to Romney, and Huckabee is a non-factor, as he has essentially pulled out of the state and is making his appeal to Southern anti-Mormons for Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n

If you doubt that Romney\u2019s doing well, just check out his InTrade numbers<\/a>. In Michigan, Romney didn\u2019t pull ahead of McCain until the day of the primary. As of this writing, Romney is trading at 56, and McCain is at 35. (Giuliani is the only other candidate who\u2019s registering \u2013 barely \u2013 with a 7.5.) This, obviously, can fluctuate considerably, but there aren\u2019t really any opportunities left for McCain to shift the momentum in his direction. Tonight\u2019s debate \u2013 which I did not see \u2013 was apparently a snoozer, with Romney performing well. McCain was also endorsed tonight by the New York Times<\/a>, which is the political equivalent of a Stallion Cornell endorsement in kiss-of-death terms. If McCain is the NYT\u2019s candidate, he sure ain\u2019t the GOP\u2019s.<\/p>\n

A Romney victory in Florida may not sew up the nomination for him, but there’s no doubt it would be a big, big deal.<\/p>\n

Go McCain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alas,the bad news of the night is that Cornelius\u2019 master opus, Worm Man II: Fox Man Returns<\/a>, did not win the regional Reflections competition. However, Cornelius did manage to score four points in a basketball game, which constituted 40% of the total score. (His team won, 10-6.) Two of those points were free throws, ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}