{"id":1894,"date":"2010-05-19T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:03:17","slug":"michael_barone_on_tuesdays_ele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Michael Barone On Tuesday&#8217;s Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone is one of the gurus of American politics.&nbsp; He has forgotten more about what happens in elections than most of us will ever learn.&nbsp; He&nbsp;posted his analysis of yesterday&#8217;s election in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Some-thoughts-on-the-May-elections-94260759.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>.&nbsp; He lists five lessons learned from the voters yesterday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big spenders got defeated.&nbsp; As he put it, &#8220;Suddenly pork is not kosher.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Tea Party was a force to be reckoned with.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Anti-Obama sentiment will not necessarily mean votes for Republicans (illustrated by the victory of Mark Critz in Pennsylvania).&nbsp; Critz ran on a very conservative platform and was able to convince the voters to vote for him.&nbsp; That was a loss for the Republicans, and can be done by other Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>The left wing of the Democrat party is not giving up&#8211;they did well in two primaries&#8211;Louisiana and Pennsylvania.&nbsp; The labor unions and moveon.org are heavily funding liberal candidates.<\/li>\n<li>Because of yesterday&#8217;s results, we will probably see more polarization in the future&#8211;not less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder if polarizaiton is a good or bad thing.&nbsp; In one sense, it allows the country to decide which direction it is going.&nbsp; In other sense, it makes compromise difficult.&nbsp; But&nbsp;if the answer to a problem is black and white, why are we looking for gray?&nbsp; There are areas where compromise is a good thing, but there are also areas where compromise of principles is not a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone is one of the gurus of American politics.&nbsp; He has forgotten more about what happens in elections than most of us will ever learn.&nbsp; He&nbsp;posted his analysis of yesterday&#8217;s election in today&#8217;s Washington Examiner.&nbsp; He lists five lessons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1894\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}