{"id":811,"date":"2006-10-18T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:34:11","slug":"whither-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Whither American politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/17\/AR2006101701095.html\">From the Washington Post:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in &#8220;The Way to Win,&#8221; a new book by two of the media&#8217;s best political observers, Mark Halperin of ABC News and John F. Harris of The Post. They see two basic strategic ideas at work in today&#8217;s politics: the &#8220;synthesizer&#8221; approach of former president Bill Clinton, and the &#8220;clarifier&#8221; tactics of President Bush and his political guru, Karl Rove. Here&#8217;s the way Halperin and Harris describe the two styles:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: in &#8220;The Way to Win,&#8221; a new book by two of the media&#8217;s best political observers, Mark Halperin of ABC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}