{"id":198865,"date":"2007-10-03T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/business-decides-that-batsh-insane-leaders-are-bad-for-business\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:45:00","slug":"business-decides-that-batsh-insane-leaders-are-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/business-decides-that-batsh-insane-leaders-are-bad-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Decides that Batsh%$ Insane Leaders are Bad for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB119127620102645595.html?mod=blog\">is the jist of this article<\/a>, from the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span>, of all places.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;More striking,&#8221; Pew concluded, was the change in party identification since 2002. Five years ago, the population was evenly divided &#8212; 43% for each party. This year, Democrats had a 50% to 35% advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What you have left in the Republican party are dead enders, bigots, and Religious nuts waiting for the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>These folks are not good markets to sell to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the jist of this article, from the Wall Street Journal, of all places. &#8220;More striking,&#8221; Pew concluded, was the change in party identification since 2002. Five years ago, the population was evenly divided &#8212; 43% for each party. This year, Democrats had a 50% to 35% advantage. What you have left in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198865"}],"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=198865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}