{"id":303245,"date":"2026-09-23T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=303245"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:37:11","slug":"too-soon-to-call-this-election-for-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=303245","title":{"rendered":"Too Soon To Call This Election for the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped making predictions about politics on the day in 2000 that John McCain trounced George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary. I was standing with a young, pre-CNN Jake Tapper, who asked me-I was a campaign grizzly, even then-whether George W. Bush was toast&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/09\/23\/too_soon_to_call_this_election_for_the_democrats_711887.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped making predictions about politics on the day in 2000 that John McCain trounced George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary. I was standing with a young, pre-CNN Jake Tapper, who asked me-I was a campaign grizzly, even then-whether George W. Bush was toast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303245"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=303245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}