{"id":16876,"date":"2016-05-23T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16876"},"modified":"2016-05-28T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T15:07:50","slug":"herd-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16876","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Herd up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my Buddy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/wake-up-and-see-the-trump-card-he-can-win\/380327951\/\">http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/wake-up-and-see-the-trump-card-he-can-win\/380327951\/<\/a>, which includes this interesting language:<br \/>\nFor all the talk of Republicans who won\u2019t vote for Trump, it\u2019s quite likely that more than 90 percent will herd up.<\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p>The identification with political parties is a psychological attachment that often forms in childhood. We are not handcuffed to our party but the tie is tight and has become more so.<br \/>\nA Stanford research team studied the reaction of Republicans and Democrats to the prospect that their child might marry someone from the other political party. In 1960 \u2014 no problem. Only 5 percent (or less) reported being upset by the idea. Our new hyperpartisan world has introduced a very different reaction by 2010. Nearly a third of Democrats were irked and almost half of Republicans were unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cherd up\u201d?  We are ostensibly farther out of the jungle since 1960, but we are increasingly tribal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was funny when I was a kid in the 60&#8243;s watching Candid Camera. Its not so funny now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BgRoiTWkBHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Buddy: See http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/wake-up-and-see-the-trump-card-he-can-win\/380327951\/, which includes this interesting language: For all the talk of Republicans who won\u2019t vote for Trump, it\u2019s quite likely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-2016","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16877,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}