{"id":23750,"date":"2018-11-04T12:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T11:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23750"},"modified":"2018-11-04T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T11:10:44","slug":"only-two-more-days-to-the-us-mid-term-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23750","title":{"rendered":"Only two more days to the US mid-term elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following this year&#8217;s mid-term elections in the United States like no other. Never have I seen a sitting president campaigning so hard in such elections, but Trump knows that these elections are all about him.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/04\/democrats-could-win-house-but-spectre-trumps-fearmongering\">a piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper, Simon Tisdall explains that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Set against the overwhelming weight of historical precedent, political experience and poll predictions, logic suggests Trump and the Republicans should lose on Tuesday, possibly big time. But will they?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He points out that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; &#8230; if the political world has learned anything since Trump\u2019s shock victory in 2016, it is that traditional indicators must be taken with a barrow-load of salt. Trump does not behave like a conventional politician, for the simple reason that he is not one. His midterm campaign tactics have surpassed, in crudeness, the worst excesses of his most cynical White House predecessors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just two days to go &#8230; Meanwhile, if you&#8217;d like an explanation of how the American political system works, you can read my guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Americanpoliticalsystem.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following this year&#8217;s mid-term elections in the United States like no other. Never have I seen a sitting president campaigning so hard in such elections, but Trump knows that these elections are all about him. In a piece in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper, Simon Tisdall explains that: &#8220;Set against the overwhelming weight of historical [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23750","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=23750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23756,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23750\/revisions\/23756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}