{"id":2871,"date":"2004-09-17T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/put-a-fork-in-ole-dan-hes-done\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T20:55:39","slug":"put-a-fork-in-ole-dan-hes-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/put-a-fork-in-ole-dan-hes-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Put a fork in ole Dan, he&#8217;s done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBuck Staudt spoke to ABC News about the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/Politics\/Vote2004\/staudt_bush_040917-1.html\">sugar-coating allegations:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I never pressured anybody about George Bush because I had no reason to,&#8221; Staudt told ABC News in his first interview since the documents were made public. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it, the Rathergate story is both fake and false.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bush&#8217;s lead in the Gallup Poll is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/content\/?ci=13066\">up to 13 points<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, in the new poll, the figures show Bush with a 13-point lead over Kerry among likely voters and an 8-point lead among registered voters. Both sets of figures represent significant increases in Bush&#8217;s standing in the race since just before the beginning of the Republican convention in late August, when likely voters chose Bush over Kerry by a slight three-point margin (50% to 47%), and registered voters leaned toward Kerry by an even smaller margin of one point (48% to 47%).  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well, Dems, there&#8217;s always 2008.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buck Staudt spoke to ABC News about the sugar-coating allegations: &#8220;I never pressured anybody about George Bush because I had no reason to,&#8221; Staudt told ABC News in his first interview since the documents were made public. So there you have it, the Rathergate story is both fake and false. Meanwhile, Bush&#8217;s lead in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/put-a-fork-in-ole-dan-hes-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Put a fork in ole Dan, he&#8217;s done&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}