{"id":13605,"date":"2014-09-04T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13605"},"modified":"2014-09-04T00:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T07:12:05","slug":"is-omalley-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/is-omalley-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Is O’Malley In?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It may be that we will have a Democratic primary challenger to Hillary Clinton.  Let me be clear that any Democratic candidate, more progressive than Hillary, who can win the presidential election in 2016 will have my support.  It’s not hard to find Democrats more progressive than Hillary.  Most are.  But I wonder if Martin O’Malley is the right candidate?<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"0904OMalley\"In the the Plum Line at the Washington Post<\/a> today comes a report from the Wall Street Journal (behind a pay wall) that Hillary Clinton will have at least one challenger in the Democratic Party primaries:  <\/font><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reports that top Dem fundraisers claim Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has said he’ll enter the presidential primary even if Hillary Clinton is in it<\/strong><\/span>. He’s raising his profile on the left:<\/font><\/p>\n

O’Malley signed a law raising the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2018….he signed legislation banning various kinds of assault weapons and imposing new limits on the size of gun magazines….he pushed through the first state gas-tax increase since 1992…O’Malley said unaccompanied minors illegally entering the U.S. shouldn’t be returned to home countries where they would be in danger — a position at odds with the White House… [emphasis original]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He certainly sounds more progressive then Hillary, and I like his positions.  I don’t know much about his record, and that’s the problem.  In all these years, I have never before had occasion to mention his name.  Could he win the general?  I have to think not.  But if nothing else, he might help drive Hillary leftward, or help a better known progressive decide to run.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may be that we will have a Democratic primary challenger to Hillary Clinton.  Let me be clear that any Democratic candidate, more progressive than Hillary, who can win the presidential election in 2016 will have my support.  It’s not hard to find Democrats more progressive than Hillary.  Most are.  But I wonder if Martin […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}