{"id":30420,"date":"2012-01-21T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_with_hours_to_decide_few_in_south_carolina_are_willing_to_commit\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:50:38","slug":"ny_times_with_hours_to_decide_few_in_south_carolina_are_willing_to_commit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30420","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) With Hours to Decide, Few in South Carolina Are Willing to Commit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours before the state\u2019s Republican presidential primary, &#8230;[Heidi Trull&#8217;s] ban on political talk did not matter one bit.<\/p>\n<p>No one had found a candidate they liked enough to argue for.<\/p>\n<p>From country restaurants like this one to suburban shopping malls in Spartanburg and espresso bars in Greenville, voters facing four options in the Republican primary seemed to shrug and say, \u201cI haven\u2019t decided.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As South Carolina residents began voting today, polls were showing Newt Gingrich gaining ground on Mitt Romney while Ron Paul and Rick Santorum battled for third place. But those polls do not always reflect what is happening on the ground, particularly in a region that has emerged as a coveted electoral battleground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/21\/us\/politics\/with-hours-to-decide-few-in-s-carolina-are-willing-to-commit.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours before the state\u2019s Republican presidential primary, &#8230;[Heidi Trull&#8217;s] ban on political talk did not matter one bit. No one had found a candidate they liked enough to argue for. From country restaurants like this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30420\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}