{"id":28577,"date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/is-nick-xenophon-s-election-campaign-going-down-the-drain\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"is-nick-xenophon-s-election-campaign-going-down-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/is-nick-xenophon-s-election-campaign-going-down-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nick Xenophon\u2019s election campaign going down the drain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Channel 7 political reporter Mike Smithson says a slide in the polls for Nick Xenophon suggests he\u2019s bitten off more than he can chew.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1400\" width=\"755\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/xenophon-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cNick\u2019s learning the hard way that politics is all about having war chest and the right candidates,\u201d Smitho said on FIVEAA breakfast.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m wondering whether Nick is going to struggle in Hartley. I think he probably should get up. If you\u2019re leader can\u2019t get up, who can?<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhy would you run 36 candidates and you don\u2019t even really know the integrity of all those candidates? Why not run six or eight or ten, and have let\u2019s say eight really good ones\u2026 and you\u2019re probably going to win eight seats.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>David Penberthy said Xenophon\u2019s plight was a \u201cgreat case study in human nature\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cAnyone who\u2019s in politics is obviously driven by ambition. The polls came out in November-December late year saying this bloke could be premier and then you go, geez, why not.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe question\u2019s gone from how many seats will Nick Xenophon win, to will Nick Xenophon win a seat.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/davidandwillpodcast-28feb2018\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 7 political reporter Mike Smithson says a slide in the polls for Nick Xenophon suggests he\u2019s bitten off more than he can chew. \u201cNick\u2019s learning the hard way that politics is all about having war chest and the right candidates,\u201d Smitho said on FIVEAA breakfast. \u201cI\u2019m wondering whether Nick is going to struggle in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Nick Xenophon\u2019s election campaign going down the drain? 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