{"id":2613,"date":"2010-09-09T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2010-09-09T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T01:42:44","slug":"former-hoffman-aide-at-the-center-of-ugly-gop-battle-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/09\/former-hoffman-aide-at-the-center-of-ugly-gop-battle-in-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hoffman aide at the center of ugly GOP battle in Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin made headlines yesterday when she endorsed Tea Party favorite Christine O&#8217;Donnell in Delaware&#8217;s GOP Senate primary, spurning the Republican Party bosses&#8217; main pick, Mike Castle.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/weigel\/archive\/2010\/09\/09\/palin-endorses-o-donnell-in-delaware.aspx\">Slate<\/a>, Palin&#8217;s surprising pick was engineered by Matt Moran, who was part of Doug Hoffman&#8217;s campaign team last year in the NY-23 special election.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was Palin&#8217;s endorsement of Hoffman that  really rocketed him into the stratosphere, and made her endorsement  valuable &#8212; something that was not at all clear in October 2009, when  she took that first leap.<\/p>\n<p>Moran stayed in touch with the Palins and kept up communication when  national attention turned to Delaware and O&#8217;Donnell became the focus of  attacks from the local GOP and ugly media coverage from, well, lots of  places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin made headlines yesterday when she endorsed Tea Party favorite Christine O&#8217;Donnell in Delaware&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}