{"id":1418,"date":"2004-10-19T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/how-liberal-is-john-kerry\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:29:48","slug":"how-liberal-is-john-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/how-liberal-is-john-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Liberal is John Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article284m.html\">How Liberal is John Kerry?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new RNC ad claims Kerry is &#8220;the most liberal man in the Senate.&#8221; Actually, his lifetime rating is 11th or lower, depending.<\/p>\n<p>A Republican National Committee ad released Oct. 16 claims that Kerry is &#8220;the most liberal man in the Senate.&#8221; It&#8217;s true that vote rankings by the politically neutral magazine The National Journal rated Kerry &#8220;most liberal&#8221; in 2003 and in three earlier years during his first Senate term: 1986, 1988, and 1990. But <b>over his entire career the Journal ranks Kerry the 11th most liberal Senator. And by other rankings he&#8217;s only a bit left of his party&#8217;s center.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Liberal is John Kerry? A new RNC ad claims Kerry is &#8220;the most liberal man in the Senate.&#8221; Actually, his lifetime rating is 11th or lower, depending. A Republican National Committee ad released Oct. 16 claims that Kerry is &#8220;the most liberal man in the Senate.&#8221; It&#8217;s true that vote rankings by the politically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/how-liberal-is-john-kerry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Liberal is John Kerry?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}