{"id":14838,"date":"2016-02-01T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=14838"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:26:30","slug":"iowa-the-gop-side-is-cruz-trump-rubio-for-the-dems-hillary-clings-to-slim-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=14838","title":{"rendered":"Iowa: The GOP Side Is Cruz, Trump &#038; Rubio&#8230;For The Dems Hillary Clings To Slim Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines, IA&#8230;As the GOP results are in and Ted Cruz takes home the top spot in Iowa with 28%. Trump proves that he is not invincible and came in a soft 24%.  Marco Rubio was the clear winner of the biggest mover prize and came in just behind Trump at 23%.  Carson was a distant 4th at 9%.  The field is starting to shrink as Governor Mike Huckabee announced he is suspending his campaign.  On the Democratic Side Hillary is clinging to a slim one percent edge over Bernie Sanders.  O&#8217;Malley as a non issue and announced he is suspending his campaign.  Our initial takeaway is that Trump may have been punished a few percentage points for not playing team ball and attending the last debate.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75803-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 212016 75803 PM\" width=\"548\" height=\"565\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75803-PM.jpg 548w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75803-PM-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75803-PM-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75857-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 212016 75857 PM\" width=\"548\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75857-PM.jpg 548w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75857-PM-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not the battle moves to New Hampshire.  New Hampshire has not always been kind to Iowa winners but this year seems to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines, IA&#8230;As the GOP results are in and Ted Cruz takes home the top spot in Iowa with 28%. Trump proves that he is not invincible and came in a soft 24%. Marco Rubio was the clear winner of the biggest mover prize and came in just behind Trump at 23%. Carson was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","category-the-stump","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-212016-75803-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}