{"id":3309,"date":"2008-08-12T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:32:13","slug":"the_frontrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"The Front-Runner\u2019s Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200809\/hillary-clinton-campaign\">Joshua Green<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton\u2019s epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags. Everybody knows what happened. But we still don\u2019t have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.<br \/>\nThe after-battle assessments in the major newspapers and newsweeklies generally agreed on the big picture: the campaign was not prepared for a lengthy fight; it had an insufficient delegate operation; it squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a paralyzing schizophrenia\u2014one day a shots-\u2019n\u2019-beers brawler, the next a Hallmark Channel mom. Through it all, her staff feuded and bickered, while her husband distracted. But as a journalistic exercise, the \u201ccampaign obit\u201d is inherently flawed, reflecting the viewpoints of those closest to the press rather than empirical truth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/nonolympics_nonchina_check_out.php\">James Fallows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200809\/hillary-clinton-campaign\">Joshua Green<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton\u2019s epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags. Everybody knows what happened. But we still don\u2019t have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.<br \/>\nThe after-battle assessments in the major newspapers and newsweeklies generally agreed on the big picture: the campaign was not prepared for a lengthy fight; it had an insufficient delegate operation; it squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a paralyzing schizophrenia\u2014one day a shots-\u2019n\u2019-beers brawler, the next a Hallmark Channel mom. Through it all, her staff feuded and bickered, while her husband distracted. But as a journalistic exercise, the \u201ccampaign obit\u201d is inherently flawed, reflecting the viewpoints of those closest to the press rather than empirical truth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/nonolympics_nonchina_check_out.php\">James Fallows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}