{"id":193741,"date":"2008-11-20T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/because-they-have-lost-the-people-who-worship-power\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:08:00","slug":"because-they-have-lost-the-people-who-worship-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/because-they-have-lost-the-people-who-worship-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Because they Have Lost the People Who Worship Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought that the Republican Party&#8217;s poll numbers could not go any lower, you would be wrong, they can, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/112015\/GOP-Takes-Another-Image-Hit-PostElection.aspx\">they have<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Favorable\/Unfavorable has gone from 40\/53 to 34\/61.<\/p>\n<p>The real change is that a month ago, Obama had not won the election, so people who cling to power were still with them.<\/p>\n<p>There are always people who want to hang with the winning team, not matter how repugnant, and those rats have boarded the lifeboats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought that the Republican Party&#8217;s poll numbers could not go any lower, you would be wrong, they can, and they have. Favorable\/Unfavorable has gone from 40\/53 to 34\/61. The real change is that a month ago, Obama had not won the election, so people who cling to power were still with them. There &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}