{"id":25320,"date":"2011-03-28T01:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_merkel_party_in_german_state_poll_disaster\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T01:05:26","slug":"afp_merkel_party_in_german_state_poll_disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25320","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Merkel party in German state poll disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives lost power in their German heartland after nearly six decades, initial poll results showed Sunday, with the Greens likely to lead their first state government.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democrats (CDU) have ruled Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1953, but anger over her nuclear policy in light of the Japan crisis as well as decisions on Libya and the euro drove away voters in the run-up to the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-nuclear Greens claimed about 24 percent of the vote &#8212; about 12 point higher than five years ago &#8212; and were likely to form a coalition with the Social Democrats, who garnered about 23 percent in the rich state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110327\/wl_afp\/germanyvote_20110327175253\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives lost power in their German heartland after nearly six decades, initial poll results showed Sunday, with the Greens likely to lead their first state government. Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democrats (CDU) have ruled Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1953, but anger<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25320\">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":[40,49,50,202,201,200,478,337,531,190,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-asia","category-europe","category-germany","category-japan","category-libya","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25320","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=25320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}