{"id":7135,"date":"2014-11-06T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:10:36","slug":"americans-have-just-elected-the-party-they-like-the-least-to-run-the-government-body-they-least-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/americans-have-just-elected-the-party-they-like-the-least-to-run-the-government-body-they-least-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Americans have just elected the party they like the least to run the government body they least trust.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting take from overseas. Read it all at the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/us\/us-midterms-republicans-didn-t-win-as-big-as-you-think-they-did-1.1989378\">US midterms: \u2018Republicans didn\u2019t win as big as you think they did\u2019<\/a> by Gary Younge of the Irish Times<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a CNN exit poll , eight in 10 Americans disapprove of how Congress has been handling its job, while almost six in 10 are displeased with Obama. <\/p>\n<p>A full 44 per cent have a positive view of Democrats; 40 per cent have a positive view of Republicans. <strong>Americans have just elected the party they like the least to run the government body they least trust.<\/strong> Even greater cynicism is the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/us\/us-midterms-republicans-didn-t-win-as-big-as-you-think-they-did-1.1989378\">US midterms: \u2018Republicans didn\u2019t win as big as you think they did\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricklyford.com\/\">Pat Lyford<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting take from overseas. Read it all at the link. US midterms: \u2018Republicans didn\u2019t win as big as you think they did\u2019 by Gary Younge of the Irish Times According to a CNN exit poll , eight in 10 Americans disapprove of how Congress has been handling its job, while almost six in 10 are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/americans-have-just-elected-the-party-they-like-the-least-to-run-the-government-body-they-least-trust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Americans have just elected the party they like the least to run the government body they least trust.&rdquo;<\/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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","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=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}