{"id":1338,"date":"2012-05-16T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:32:23","slug":"americans-elect-flop-independents-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Americans Elect flop: Independents aren&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/05\/americans_elect_an_inevitable_35_million_failure_.html\">Link.<\/a> &#8220;the vast, vast majority of people who tell pollsters or voting registrars that they\u2019re \u201cindependent\u201d are actually deeply partisan&#8221;. The rest are deeply disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obama had \u201ccontrol\u201d of the Senate\u2014the 60 votes needed to beat a filibuster\u2014from September 2009 to January 2010. If you don\u2019t realize how the delayed seating of Al Franken or the illness of Ted Kennedy or the victory of Scott Brown changed things, you don\u2019t know how the government works.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. &#8220;the vast, vast majority of people who tell pollsters or voting registrars that they\u2019re \u201cindependent\u201d are actually deeply partisan&#8221;. The rest are deeply disconnected. &#8220;Obama had \u201ccontrol\u201d of the Senate\u2014the 60 votes needed to beat a filibuster\u2014from September 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=1338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}