{"id":37680,"date":"2019-06-26T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37680"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:50:45","slug":"waiting-for-the-field-to-start-thinning-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37680","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the field to start thinning out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Democraticdebate%20%23Democrats%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1_i4me0lP-oEIeThpaYtKwFQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37681\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1_i4me0lP-oEIeThpaYtKwFQ-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1_i4me0lP-oEIeThpaYtKwFQ-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1_i4me0lP-oEIeThpaYtKwFQ-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1_i4me0lP-oEIeThpaYtKwFQ.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My political prediction skills are, shall we say, <em>suspect<\/em> at best.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I am going to go with this pre-Democratic Party presidential joint appearance observation: I will not be surprised to start seeing the large field start to winnow itself down beginning this weekend, or maybe early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty of the 25 Democrats running for president are going to take the stage tonight and Thursday in Miami. We&#8217;re already talking about Biden, Beto, Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Mayor Pete &#8220;and the others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I believe one or more of &#8220;the others&#8221; might pack it in soon if after the debates occur they don&#8217;t perceive any tangible, discernible, identifiable movement in their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lesser-known candidates have worthwhile things to say. The problem for them, though, will be whether the huge TV land audience is going to hear their message. The debate format won&#8217;t allow each candidate sufficient time to articulate his or her message. I mean, they have to race across the stage to give everyone some time in the spotlight. Time is not the candidates&#8217; friend.<\/p>\n<p>Do I expect any of these preliminary frontrunners to stumble so badly that they flame out? No. We won&#8217;t have an &#8220;oops&#8221; moment. I don&#8217;t expect a frontrunning candidate to drool on himself or herself.<\/p>\n<p>The political culling process, though, seems a good bet to show itself.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly quite soon at that.<\/p>\n<p>However, I merely ask you to please don&#8217;t hold me to this if it doesn&#8217;t materialize <em>just yet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Democraticdebate%20%23Democrats%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My political prediction skills are, shall we say, suspect at best. Still, I am going to go with this pre-Democratic Party presidential joint appearance observation: I will not be surprised to start seeing the large field start to winnow itself down beginning this weekend, or maybe early next week. Twenty of the 25 Democrats running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for the field to start thinning out<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13],"tags":[7225,1337,8730],"class_list":["post-37680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-democratic-party","tag-democratic-primary-debates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680","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=37680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37682,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions\/37682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}