{"id":2794,"date":"2016-04-18T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/with-odds-stacked-against-him-deray-mckesson-looks-forward-to-mayoral-election\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:09:10","slug":"with-odds-stacked-against-him-deray-mckesson-looks-forward-to-mayoral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/with-odds-stacked-against-him-deray-mckesson-looks-forward-to-mayoral-election\/","title":{"rendered":"With odds stacked against him, DeRay Mckesson looks forward to mayoral election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Famed activist and Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson is not going to be the city’s 50th mayor \u2014\u00a0unless he works a political miracle.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not a bold statement. Mckesson has yet to register even 1%<\/a> in the polls, local activists have turned out to be more political enemies than allies, and The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0Magazine<\/i>\u00a0recently ran an article with a two sentence headline, the first of which read, “DeRay Mckesson Won’t Be Elected Mayor of Baltimore<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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The transition from activism to politics was never going to be easy. But Mckesson has perhaps found it more frustrating than most, despite what he believes is a solid base of experience. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Famed activist and Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson is not going to be the city’s 50th mayor \u2014\u00a0unless he works a political miracle. This is not a bold statement. Mckesson has yet to register even 1% in the polls, local … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[893,2013,1939,2010,749],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-activism","tag-deray-mckesson","tag-election","tag-mayor","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}