{"id":2057,"date":"2010-05-09T22:05:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2010-05-09T22:05:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T02:05:44","slug":"in-germany-britain-and-the-us-the-voters-are-ticked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/09\/in-germany-britain-and-the-us-the-voters-are-ticked\/","title":{"rendered":"In Germany, Britain, and the US the voters are ticked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about ideology.  In Britain, the liberal Labor party got hammered; in Germany the conservative Christian Democrats got pounded.  <\/p>\n<p>Here in the US, voters seem sour on just about every incumbent, regardless of party label.  <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, it&#8217;s about the economy.  People are still hurting two years after the deepest recession since the Great Depression.  <\/p>\n<p>And last week&#8217;s stock market roller coaster ride &#8212; combined with the cliffhanger in Greece &#8212; should give everyone fair warning that the worst may not be behind us.<\/p>\n<p>Here in New York state, there are certainly some bumpy months ahead, as placeholder Governor David Paterson tries to manage a cash shortfall that could send state workers home one day a week through the summer.<\/p>\n<p>One thing&#8217;s clear:  Democrats have just a few more months to make people feel that things are getting better, or they&#8217;re likely to take the same drubbing that Labor and the Christian Democrats just experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about ideology. In Britain, the liberal Labor party got hammered; in Germany the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057"}],"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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}