{"id":1332,"date":"2009-11-19T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/pragmatism-vs-idealism\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:47:00","slug":"pragmatism-vs-idealism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/pragmatism-vs-idealism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragmatism vs. idealism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit.  CNN\/Opinion research polled voters on this basic question:<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather vote for someone who agrees with you on major issues &#8212; or for someone who can win?<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m summarizing:  See the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/blogs\/us_party_ideology_cnn_111315.php\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The punchline is that Democrats preferred the candidate who can beat the other party by a wide margin (58%) over the candidate who agreed with them (38%). <\/p>\n<p>For Republicans it was exactly the opposite, with most (51% preferring the candidate who agreed with them over the candidate who could win (43%).<\/p>\n<p>Which basically sums up the state of the two parties, right?  Republicans have a much  more coherent set of &#8220;do-or-die&#8221; core values &#8212; and Democrats have a massive majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit. CNN\/Opinion research polled voters on this basic question: Would you rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}