{"id":6209,"date":"2012-02-20T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T01:49:28","slug":"6209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Wagging the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/16\/the-electoral-wasteland\/\">Electoral Wasteland<\/a> &#8211; Where the most unreasonable hair at the tip of the tail can wag the GOP dog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far, three million voters have participated in the Republican races, less than the  population of Connecticut.  This means that 89 percent of all registered voters in those states [that have held caucuses or primaries] have not participated in what is, from a horse-race perspective, a very tight contest. Yes, we know Republicans don&#8217;t like their choices; it&#8217;s a meh primary. But still, in some states, this election could be happening in a ghost town. Less than 1 percent of registered voters turned out for Maine&#8217;s caucus. In Nevada, where Republican turnout was down 25 percent from 2008, only 3 percent of total registered voters participated. This is not majority rule by any measure; it barely qualifies as participatory democracy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same hair on the Democratic dog doesn&#8217;t have nearly that power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Wasteland &#8211; Where the most unreasonable hair at the tip of the tail can wag the GOP dog: So far, three million voters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats-revival","category-gods-own-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","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=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20209,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/20209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}