{"id":22774,"date":"2010-11-07T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jonathan_rauch_o_nthe_virtues_of_divided_government_in_the_current_american\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:28:09","slug":"jonathan_rauch_o_nthe_virtues_of_divided_government_in_the_current_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22774","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Rauch o nthe Virtues of Divided Government in the current American Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grand victory for Republicans in the 2010 midterm election? Yes, of course. But also no. In all three of the most recent earthshaking midterm elections \u201d\u201d 1994, 2006 and now 2010 \u201d\u201d the same candidate won: divided government.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a coincidence. In the last two decades, a strong and persistent pattern has emerged, one that will dominate our politics for some time to come, because it is rooted in two important political realities. First, the public strongly prefers divided government. Second, it has every reason to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/07\/opinion\/07rauch.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand victory for Republicans in the 2010 midterm election? Yes, of course. But also no. In all three of the most recent earthshaking midterm elections \u201d\u201d 1994, 2006 and now 2010 \u201d\u201d the same candidate won: divided government. That<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22774\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,670,149,133,617,616,151,667,129,618,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-history","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}