{"id":379102,"date":"2010-03-02T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77990"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:41","slug":"5-chet-culver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379102","title":{"rendered":"5. Chet Culver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77991\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 490px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/culver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77991\" title=\"culver\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/culver-480x317.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) (chetculver.com)\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) (chetculver.com)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Culver is governor of a highly competitive state crucial to national  politics. And Culver has already proven his loyalty to the president:  the governor <a id=\"fesz\" title=\"offered Obama an early presidential endorsement\" href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/community\/post\/samgrahamfelsen\/CGGkz\">offered  Obama an early presidential endorsement<\/a> in February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Yeas:  If Obama&#8217;s looking for a rural populist, Culver would seem to be a  natural fit. Though he grew up the son of a senator in the suburbs of  Washington, D.C., Culver worked as a high school teacher and as a  football and basketball coach. Today he touts his efforts to increase  the minimum wage, pressure government to rein in spending and assist  families and small businesses in his state.<\/p>\n<p>Nays: Before Culver  can begin planning any part of his political future, he must first  survive his 2010 re-election campaign. Culver suffers dangerously low  approval ratings back home, and several heavy-hitting Republicans have  lined up to wage a competitive fight against him in November. And if he  was to be chosen to be the nation&#8217;s next major populist, critics would  likely use his background as a lobbyist again him.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77987\/4-jim-webb\">4. Jim Webb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) (chetculver.com) Culver is governor of a highly competitive state crucial to national politics. And Culver has already proven his loyalty to the president: the governor offered Obama an early presidential endorsement in February 2008. Yeas: If Obama&#8217;s looking for a rural populist, Culver would seem to be a natural fit. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}