{"id":30376,"date":"2018-09-04T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30376"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T22:14:30","slug":"how-a-minority-party-can-win-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/how-a-minority-party-can-win-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Minority Party Can Win An Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between Democrats and Republicans:<\/p>\n<p>Democrat One: There&#8217;s a blue wave coming!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Two: Don&#8217;t say that, it will jinx us!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Three: If we say there&#8217;s a blue wave, people will relax and we won&#8217;t have one!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Four: There might be a blue wave, but it is all Progressives and they can&#8217;t win so we&#8217;re done for!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Five: Don&#8217;t say Blue Wave, that might make it not happen!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Six: There might be a blue wave, but it isn&#8217;t Progressive enough, don&#8217;t vote for incumbents!<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Seven: I&#8217;m going to Cancun in November, see ya later!<\/p>\n<p>Republican One:  There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Two:  There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Three: There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Four: There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Five: There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Six: There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n<p>Republican Seven: There&#8217;s a Red Wave coming, were&#8217; winning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between Democrats and Republicans: Democrat One: There&#8217;s a blue wave coming! Democrat Two: Don&#8217;t say that, it will jinx us! Democrat Three: If we say there&#8217;s a blue wave, people will relax and we won&#8217;t have one! Democrat Four: There might be a blue wave, but it is all Progressives and they can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/how-a-minority-party-can-win-an-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How A Minority Party Can Win An Election<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5550,5551,5549],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Democrats_Eating_Their_Young_Greg_Laden_Blog.png?fit=698%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7TW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30379,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions\/30379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}