{"id":784,"date":"2015-04-22T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=784"},"modified":"2015-04-22T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:25:15","slug":"race-2016-marco-rubio-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/22\/race-2016-marco-rubio-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Race 2016: Marco Rubio, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent writes to discuss a chart in this <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/16\/race-2016-marco-rubio-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RE:\u00a0 April 16 post <strong><em>Race 2016:\u00a0 Marco Rubio<\/em><\/strong>, and the chart labeled <strong><em>How Conservative are GOP Presidential Candidates<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me, this chart is useful on more than one level. \u00a0Take note of the folks whose public issue statements widely differ from their congressional voting record.\u00a0 Ron Paul, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz seem to have the most egregious track record for saying one thing and doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>I find that kind of analysis very useful, if the analysis is from a trusted source. Even if you abhor Michelle Bachmann\u2019s or Herman Cain\u2019s platform, at least you know where they stand (relatively speaking).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to argue the point, and those data points are striking.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the chart again, for reference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73899 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/enten-datalab-rubio-21.png?w=800\" alt=\"enten-datalab-rubio-2\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I note that Rick Santorum, a one term Senator, appears to be willing to have a radical mouth but a less than radical voting button.\u00a0 But how is FiveThirtyEight handling candidates with no Congressional voting record, such as Huckabee, Pawlenty, and other governors?\u00a0 That&#8217;s not entirely clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent writes to discuss a chart in this post: RE:\u00a0 April 16 post Race 2016:\u00a0 Marco Rubio, and the chart labeled How Conservative are GOP Presidential Candidates: Seems to me, this chart is useful on more than one level. \u00a0Take note of the folks whose public issue statements widely \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/22\/race-2016-marco-rubio-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}