{"id":1731,"date":"2010-01-19T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2010-01-19T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:39:33","slug":"an-american-view-of-the-british-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"An American view of the British General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the British General Election has not been called yet, but it has to be in the next five months and it will probably be on Thursday 6 May 2010.<br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s interesting to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/01\/hung-parliament-from-gallows-perhaps.html\">this American view<\/a> on the forthcoming poll. Especially useful is the graph about the imbalance between votes and seats in the British first-past-the-post system and the table reminding us of how votes were cast last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the British General Election has not been called yet, but it has to be in the next five months and it will probably be on Thursday 6 May 2010. So it&#8217;s interesting to read this American view on the forthcoming poll. Especially useful is the graph about the imbalance between votes and seats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}