{"id":606,"date":"2022-04-24T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T02:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T02:30:33","slug":"invisible-primary-political-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/invisible-primary\/invisible-primary-political-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Primary Political Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/s03542u-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/s03542u-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/s03542u-624x911.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/04\/s03542u.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This cartoon encapsulates the influence of money in the American political process and more specifically in the unofficial selection of nominees during the invisible primaries or &#8220;pre-primary&#8221; phase. During this period leading up to the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary, party elites and interest groups will often anoint a specific candidate and show their support with donations. The aggregate funding secured by a candidate during this phase often dictates the ultimate success of their campaign during the election period, and therefore, money can be seen as a proxy for votes before formal voting can begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon encapsulates the influence of money in the American political process and more specifically in the unofficial selection of nominees during the invisible primaries or &#8220;pre-primary&#8221; phase. During this period leading up to the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary, party elites and interest groups will often anoint a specific candidate and show their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invisible-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}