{"id":3147,"date":"2010-11-04T07:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2010-11-04T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:47:38","slug":"newsweek-dissects-scott-murphy-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/04\/newsweek-dissects-scott-murphy-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek dissects Scott Murphy defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big take-away from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/11\/03\/the-anatomy-of-one-democrat-s-loss.html\">Newsweek<\/a> think-piece is that Scott Murphy &#8220;was a Democrat&#8221; who voted for Democratic legislation &#8212; supporting controversial bills that, in the end, many voters believed were bad for the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ufeffDespite his deviations from Democratic orthodoxy, Murphy supported the  two biggest items on Nancy Pelosi\u2019s agenda: health-care reform and  cap-and-trade legislation.<\/p>\n<p>They were his downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Once Gibson started  slamming those votes\u2014sometime between the first Siena poll, when 65  percent of respondents were unfamiliar with the Republican candidate,  and the second, when that number had plummeted to 24 percent\u2014voters  disgruntled with the direction of the country (read: almost everyone)  decided that Murphy, however unorthodox, had played enough of a part in  determining that direction not to deserve another term.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them may  have voted against the policies, but most of them were simply voting  against the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>In a legislative sense, Pelosi\u2019s skill at  rounding up \u201cayes\u201d on controversial bills has served the Democratic  Party well: the 111th Congress was the most productive in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>But on Election Day, her successes made it difficult for vulnerable  Democrats to claim that they\u2019d bring about more change than their  opponents<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/11\/03\/the-anatomy-of-one-democrat-s-loss.html\">.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/11\/03\/the-anatomy-of-one-democrat-s-loss.html\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big take-away from this Newsweek think-piece is that Scott Murphy &#8220;was a Democrat&#8221; who [&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":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147"}],"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=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}