{"id":1574,"date":"2008-01-30T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/01\/30\/rudy\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T00:59:55","slug":"rudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/rudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many commenters will be quick to tell you, this is a physics blog and we should stay away from politics, about which we are hopelessly naive.  But I have the keys to the blog, so I can occasionally quote myself.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/17\/who-will-win\/\">March 2007<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that Rudy Giuliani is currently leading in Republican polls, and that smart people occasionally opine that he could win the election or even be a good President, is a source of unlimited amazement to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Rudy Giuliani wins the 2008 general election, I promise to never again make a political prediction in public for the rest of my life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/065304.php\">that was a close one<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/08-US-Rep-Pres-Primary.php\"><br \/>\n<img class='center' width='400' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/ustopzreps600.png' alt='ustopzreps600.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heck, I may do nothing but politics from now on.  If Mark Penn and Bob Shrum can pull down millions as Democratic consultants, why not me?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/17\/who-will-win\/#comment-226018\"><br \/>\nBest quote<\/a> from that comment thread:  &#8220;Fred Thompson isn\u2019t inspiring anyone? Once again, Sean Carroll erroneously invokes <em>pluralis majestatis<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many commenters will be quick to tell you, this is a physics blog and we should stay away from politics, about which we are hopelessly naive. But I have the keys to the blog, so I can occasionally quote myself. March 2007: The fact that Rudy Giuliani is currently leading in Republican polls, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}