{"id":10970,"date":"2016-10-05T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2016-10-05T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:15:12","slug":"trump-is-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10970","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Still There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even the fact that he never pays Federal Tax, which would have sunk any other presidential candidate, seems not to impact Trump badly, although the polls show Hilary pushing ahead again. Many people hate the Federal government and its\u00a0taxes,\u00a0so they agree with Trump\u00a0when he says he is smart. The difficulty\u00a0for pollsters and pundits is that this election is not about the presidency; it is about Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People\u00a0are either voting for him or against him. If they\u00a0vote against him they\u00a0will vote for Hilary unless they\u00a0waste their ballot on some third party no hoper. Hillary has about 25% of potential voters \u00a0actually voting for her with enthusiasm. That cannot get her to the White House. Whether she does get back to her old home will depend on whether enough Trump haters want to stop him at any price. Hardly ideal for America whichever way it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the fact that he never pays Federal Tax, which would have sunk any other presidential candidate, seems not to impact Trump badly, although the polls show Hilary pushing ahead again. Many people hate the Federal government and its\u00a0taxes,\u00a0so they agree with Trump\u00a0when he says he is smart. The difficulty\u00a0for pollsters and pundits is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10973,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}