{"id":7576,"date":"2010-10-30T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2010-10-30T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:36:17","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-american-constitution-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7576\/ever-heard-of-the-american-constitution-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever Heard of the American Constitution Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If former GOP House Rep. Tom Tancredo can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2010\/election_2010_governor_elections\/colorado\/election_2010_colorado_governor \" target=\"_blank\">overcome his current 5 point gap<\/a> to become Colorado\u2019s next governor, we\u2019ll all need to brush up on the principles and policy preferences of his new political home: the American Constitution Party.<\/p>\n<p>As would be imagined, the ACP is in-line with Tancredo\u2019s stance on border security, and regulating the number of immigrants.\u00a0 The party also seemingly provides a home for Christian libertarians.\u00a0 If Tancredo pulls off the biggest surprise of the 2010 midterm elections it will be fascinating to see whether the ACP can get any of its platform through <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2010\/10\/29\/pollster-says-tancredo-wins\/17947\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Colorado\u2019s soon-to-be Republican legislature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the sub-plots this election cycle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If former GOP House Rep. Tom Tancredo can overcome his current 5 point gap to become Colorado\u2019s next governor, we\u2019ll all need to brush up on the principles and policy preferences of his new political home: the American Constitution Party. As would be imagined, the ACP is in-line with Tancredo\u2019s stance on border security, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,2018,1064,1060,555],"class_list":["post-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-american-constitution-party","tag-colorado","tag-governor","tag-tom-tancredo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}