{"id":7276,"date":"2014-11-30T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2014-11-30T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:12:01","slug":"oh-for-that-new-car-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7276","title":{"rendered":"Oh, for that &#039;new car smell&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes a simple throwaway line has this way of sticking\u00a0to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama just might have uttered it recently in an interview. He said the next president may need to bring a &#8220;new car smell&#8221; to American voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fy6my6ksKx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/225526-former-clinton-pollster-hillary-lacks-new-car-smell\/\">Former Clinton pollster: Hillary lacks &#8216;new car smell&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Former Clinton pollster: Hillary lacks &#8216;new car smell&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/225526-former-clinton-pollster-hillary-lacks-new-car-smell\/embed\/#?secret=cxyIS7sOYx#?secret=fy6my6ksKx\" data-secret=\"fy6my6ksKx\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And that brings up the question: Does Hillary Rodham Clinton &#8212; the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 &#8212; have that &#8220;new car smell&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>A former Clinton pollster, Doug Schoen, doesn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Hill: &#8220;&#8216;The president said [last week] that the next president needs \u2026 a new car smell, and it\u2019s pretty hard for me to say \u2026 that she [Hillary] has a new car smell,&#8217; Schoen told radio host John Catsimatidis in an interview to air Sunday on New York&#8217;s 970 AM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she&#8217;s been in the public eye for a long time, dating back to 1992 when Bill Clinton told Americans if you elect him as president, &#8220;you get two.&#8221; She became a highly visible first lady, then became an equally high-visible senator from New York and then became an even more highly visible secretary of state in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>New car smell?<\/p>\n<p>Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, Mitt Romney seems a bit musty himself if you consider that he&#8217;s run twice for president, been a high-profile governor in Massachusetts and also helped rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>A Quinnipiac Poll shows Romney leading Clinton narrowly in a head-to-head matchup. But, hey, the election is two years off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d bet real money that &#8220;new car smell&#8221; just might become something of a jingle once the next campaign gets going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a simple throwaway line has this way of sticking\u00a0to the wall. President Obama just might have uttered it recently in an interview. He said the next president may need to bring a &#8220;new car smell&#8221; to American voters. Former Clinton pollster: Hillary lacks &#8216;new car smell&#8217; And that brings up the question: Does Hillary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, for that &#039;new car smell&#039;<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[540,631,2139,3101],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","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=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}