{"id":17846,"date":"2015-08-01T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17846"},"modified":"2015-08-02T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T09:00:54","slug":"what-do-these-three-political-campaigns-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17846","title":{"rendered":"What do these three political campaigns have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) In the American race to select a Republican candidate for the presidential election next year, 69 year old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is currently leading the field of 17 runners.<\/p>\n<p>2) In the American race to select a Democratic candidate for the presidential election next year, 73 year old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> is drawing exceptional support even though he is running against a firm favourite in Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>3) In the British race to elect a new leader of the Labour Party, 66 year old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Corbyn\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/a> is currently the clear favourite.<\/p>\n<p>What do these three political campaigns have in common?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardly anyone expected these three candidates to make much of an impact on their respective elections.<\/li>\n<li>Each is seen as speaking with an authenticity that is a contrast to the usual cautious political language of establishment figures.<\/li>\n<li>Each is offering a more radical agenda than the other candidates in the election which appeals to a significant section of their political party.<\/li>\n<li>Many observers feel that, even if he won the current election, he could not possibly win the subsequent general election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) In the American race to select a Republican candidate for the presidential election next year, 69 year old Donald Trump is currently leading the field of 17 runners. 2) In the American race to select a Democratic candidate for the presidential election next year, 73 year old\u00a0Bernie Sanders is drawing exceptional support even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846","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=17846"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17883,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions\/17883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}