{"id":10751,"date":"2023-05-22T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:40:37","slug":"the-real-reason-presidential-candidates-form-exploratory-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Presidential Candidates Form Exploratory Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;if 93 percent of exploratory committees turn into campaigns, why do politicians bother taking that partial step? In a word: attention. Making two announcements \u2014 one for your exploratory committee, one for your actual campaign \u2014 gives the media two chances to cover you.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-real-reason-presidential-candidates-form-exploratory-committees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-real-reason-presidential-candidates-form-exploratory-committees\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;if 93 percent of exploratory committees turn into campaigns, why do politicians bother taking that partial step? In a word: attention. Making two announcements \u2014 one for your exploratory committee, one for your actual campaign \u2014 gives the media two chances to cover you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[585,198],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-campaign","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10752,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions\/10752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}