{"id":15220,"date":"2012-07-25T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2012-07-25T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:13:34","slug":"a-new-guess-on-the-vice-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15220\/a-new-guess-on-the-vice-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Guess on the Vice Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My psychic antenna are picking up, more and more, the sense that Mitt Romney will choose Bobby Jindal as his running mate. I like that choice very much, although I still don&#8217;t understand why there is no evidence that Romney has even considered Jon Kyl of Arizona &#8212; who, according to my latest analysis of the race, would actually be a superb political choice as well as excellent substantively.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, I am officially retracting my earlier prediction (not suggestion, but prediction) that Chris Christie would be the choice. The campaign just doesn&#8217;t seem to be moving in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to lay odds on the likelihood of each potential candidate being chosen, it would be something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Chances of a Jindal pick: 30%<\/p>\n<p>Tim Pawlenty \u00a020%<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ryan \u00a018%<\/p>\n<p>Rob Portman 16%<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Ayotte 10%<\/p>\n<p>Jon Kyl 2%<\/p>\n<p>Rick Santorum 1%<\/p>\n<p>Marco Rubio 1 %<\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie 1 %<\/p>\n<p>John Thune 1\/2%<\/p>\n<p>Condoleezza Rice 1\/2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My psychic antenna are picking up, more and more, the sense that Mitt Romney will choose Bobby Jindal as his running mate. I like that choice very much, although I still don&#8217;t understand why there is no evidence that Romney has even considered Jon Kyl of Arizona &#8212; who, according to my latest analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1034,3105,1445,2729],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chris-christie","tag-jindal","tag-kyl","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15221,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}