{"id":10868,"date":"2015-09-05T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2015-09-05T17:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:14:37","slug":"non-pols-fare-best-among-gop-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10868","title":{"rendered":"Non-pols fare best among GOP faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As long as we keep talking about polls and their importance — or non-importance — allow me this brief observation.<\/p>\n

Many commentators and analysts are suggesting that the top two Republican presidential primary candidates have one thing in common: They aren’t “career politicians.”<\/p>\n

I refer to real estate mogul\/reality TV star Donald Trump and esteemed neurosurgeon Ben Carson. They’re running first and second in most of the reputable polls.<\/p>\n

Let’s not stop there. A third candidate also seems to be surging. The name? Carly Fiorina. Her background? Former CEO of Hewlitt-Packard. Fiorina, though, did run for the Senate in California, but she got thumped by Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. However, Fiorina doesn’t talk about that on the stump; instead, she talks about her business acumen and the many personal acquaintances and friendships she has with foreign dignitaries and\/or heads of state.<\/p>\n

The rest of the GOP field is languishing in single digits. Their background? They’re all “career politicians.”<\/p>\n

Some analysts have wondered when\u00a0we can throw every bit of conventional political wisdom out the window.<\/p>\n

That time might have just arrived.<\/p>\n

Oh … my.<\/p>\n\n

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As long as we keep talking about polls and their importance — or non-importance — allow me this brief observation. Many commentators and analysts are suggesting that the top two Republican presidential primary candidates have one thing in common: They aren’t “career politicians.” I refer to real estate mogul\/reality TV star Donald Trump and esteemed … Continue reading Non-pols fare best among GOP faithful<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[588,870,1424,1950],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-carly-fiorina","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}