{"id":8732,"date":"2016-01-24T22:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T03:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T03:09:56","slug":"bloomberg-may-run-as-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg may run as independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Granite State primary is mere weeks away, and the fields of both parties become more clear, another independent presidential bid begins to look more likely.<br \/>\nMichael Bloomberg, the billionaire\/former New York mayor, is considering making a bid for the presidency, a move that could provide yet another wild turn in a 2016 race that has already seen more than its fair share of them.<br \/>\nBloomberg&rsquo;s deliberations, first reported by the New York Times, were confirmed Saturday by several close associates. This is not the first time that Bloomberg has explored the possibility, always making a pragmatic calculation of whether winning is feasible. Several Bloomberg associates are convinced that a run outside of the Republican and Democratic party process is worth another look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Granite State primary is mere weeks away, and the fields of both parties become more clear, another independent presidential bid begins to look more likely. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire\/former New York mayor, is considering making a bid for the presidency, a move that could provide yet another wild turn in a 2016 race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}