{"id":25015,"date":"2015-10-20T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=25015"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:19:54","slug":"jim-webb-dropping-out-of-democratic-presidential-race-independent-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=25015","title":{"rendered":"Jim Webb Dropping Out of Democratic Presidential Race; Independent Run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/20\/politics\/jim-webb-2016-election-drops-out\/\">Or so read the tea leaves.<\/a> Of course, that suggests that he was ever truly in the Presidential race, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/politics\/the-invisible-candidacies-of-jim-webb-and-lincoln-090047078.html\">all appearances suggests otherwise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will he run as a Independent? Given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webb2016.com\/news\/\"> the three most recent posts on his campaign news page<\/a> are &#8220;Jim Webb, Independent,&#8221; &#8220;Jim Webb Considering Independent Run for Presidency, Campaign Says&#8221; and &#8220;Jim Webb to consider independent presidential bid,&#8221; I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a strong possibility. (Or perhaps a disgruntled soon-to-be-unemployed campaign staffer is just trolling us all.) Then again, given his previous lack of campaign activity, maybe an independent run would be just as invisible&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so read the tea leaves. Of course, that suggests that he was ever truly in the Presidential race, when all appearances suggests otherwise. Will he run as a Independent? Given that the three most recent posts on his campaign news page are &#8220;Jim Webb, Independent,&#8221; &#8220;Jim Webb Considering Independent Run for Presidency, Campaign Says&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[1980,2091,2864,2862,2965],"class_list":["post-25015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-jim-webb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25031,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25015\/revisions\/25031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}