{"id":9464,"date":"2020-04-10T06:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:45:28","slug":"funny-how-things-turn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9464","title":{"rendered":"Funny how things turn out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-52230979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Zurcher, BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sanders came very close to becoming the breakaway favourite to win the Democratic nomination. He ended up with the most votes after the extended, chaotic Iowa results were announced a week after the caucuses. In New Hampshire, he posted a narrow victory over Mayor Pete Buttigieg and the rest of the crowded field. Then he dominated Nevada, beating Biden by 26%.<\/p>\n<p>That, it turned out, was the high water mark of the Sanders campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It turned out it didn&#8217;t sweep the country.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Sanders ran headlong into a resurgent Biden, who posted a surprisingly strong win in South Carolina just a week later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In political campaigns, things turn out. There are surprising wins. Billionaire-funded national organizations don&#8217;t pursue well thought out strategies, instead candidates enter and drop out of races in a random fashion, endorse or don&#8217;t endorse as the mood strikes them. It&#8217;s random. Things turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Zurcher, BBC: Sanders came very close to becoming the breakaway favourite to win the Democratic nomination. He ended up with the most votes after the extended, chaotic Iowa results were announced a week after the caucuses. In New Hampshire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9464\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}