{"id":222,"date":"2008-11-06T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/06\/is-the-gop-too-white-and-too-rural\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:58:00","slug":"is-the-gop-too-white-and-too-rural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/06\/is-the-gop-too-white-and-too-rural\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the GOP too white and too rural?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the post-mortem is underway for the Republican Party.  As frequent visitors know, this is a particular obsession of mine, so we&#8217;ll dip into this thread occasionally.  What&#8217;s wrong with the GOP, what&#8217;s right, and what needs to change?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Politico&#8217;s take:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most ominously for Republicans, the GOP is increasingly becoming less grand than old \u2013 and outdated.<\/p>\n<p>As reflected in Tuesday\u2019s results and exit polls, it\u2019s a party that is overwhelmingly white, rural and aged in a country that is rapidly becoming racially mixed, suburban and dominated by a post-baby boomer generation with no memory of Vietnam or the familiar culture wars of the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are your thoughts?  Leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the post-mortem is underway for the Republican Party. As frequent visitors know, this is a [&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\/222"}],"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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}