{"id":57,"date":"2012-03-09T04:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T04:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-03-09T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T04:20:44","slug":"ron-paul-super-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/03\/ron-paul-super-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul&#8217;s Super Tuesday Successes and Long-Term Implications &#8211; Video by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube\" style=\"width: 480; height: 360;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3h4ojqravo8&amp;hd=1\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3h4ojqravo8&amp;hd=1\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Ron Paul&#8217;s respectable second-place finishes in Virginia (where he had his highest percentage of the vote to date), Vermont, and North Dakota are indicative of a longer-term rise in appreciation for liberty. Mr. Stolyarov explains that if Ron Paul&#8217;s supporters can achieve a brokered Republican National convention, then Ron Paul&#8217;s influence on this election cycle will be great indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul&#8217;s Second-Place Finishes<br \/>\n* Virginia &#8211; 107,471 votes &#8211; 40.4%<br \/>\n* North Dakota &#8211; 3,187 votes &#8211; 28.1%<br \/>\n* Vermont &#8211; 14,408 votes &#8211; 25.5%<\/p>\n<p>(Video originally published on March 7, 2012.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul&#8217;s respectable second-place finishes in Virginia (where he had his highest percentage of the vote to date), Vermont, and North Dakota are indicative of a longer-term rise in appreciation for liberty. Mr. Stolyarov explains that if Ron Paul&#8217;s supporters can achieve a brokered Republican National convention, then Ron Paul&#8217;s influence on this election cycle will be great indeed. Ron Paul&#8217;s Second-Place Finishes * Virginia &#8211; 107,471 votes &#8211; 40.4% * North Dakota &#8211; 3,187 votes &#8211; 28.1% * Vermont&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/03\/ron-paul-super-tuesday\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[66,80,76,85,70,71,69,49,83,84,40,31,30,59,82,74,86,77,81,73,68,29,72,75,65,67,79,78],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-66","tag-ballot","tag-barack-obama","tag-brokered-convention","tag-caucus","tag-caucuses","tag-election","tag-foreign-policy","tag-free-markets","tag-freedom","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-ideas","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-limited-government","tag-mitt-romney","tag-national-convention","tag-north-dakota","tag-poilitics","tag-president","tag-primary","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-rick-santorum","tag-ron-paul","tag-super-tuesday","tag-vermont","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}