{"id":3590,"date":"2026-03-05T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/05\/stop-having-primary-elections-theyre-useless-opinion-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:31:00","slug":"stop-having-primary-elections-theyre-useless-opinion-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/05\/stop-having-primary-elections-theyre-useless-opinion-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop having primary elections. They&#8217;re useless. | Opinion &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPOWFnRjhkajJWQ3pEZ0NDN3piUjQtNjdpeXVUR25rZzBIUjFud1NpandVbnRzLUMxbndfbnM2TG9MWXdCTEJ6eDRmZVRiRS15S3dESnQ0Z3ZlTHRCMGh4ZVpzaEhHVnJaelhBZlBGMzNMcHBpd1IzVjNfNDY1WWc3dkN2M2RWZjlzOFdQZEp1NEN5UWpwdjFIN01HbFVoakl1RFFVVlgwOWNvWFBQQ19oNQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Stop having primary elections. They&#8217;re useless. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop having primary elections. They&#8217;re useless. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}