{"id":903,"date":"2008-04-30T06:44:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=903"},"modified":"2008-04-30T06:44:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T05:44:30","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If &#8211; like me &#8211; you are a non-American following the primary elections in the USA, you have to learn a lot of new terminology. In the current stage of the race, two terms are of particular strangeness.<br \/>\nOne term is &#8220;a Hoosier&#8221; This is a word used to describe a resident of the state of Indiana &#8211; which votes next &#8211; but nobody is sure of the origin of the term. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoosier\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnother term is &#8220;a NASCAR voter&#8221;. This is a reference to the kind of white, male, working class voter than Obama is finding hard to reach and the term comes from the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing &#8211; web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\">here<\/a> &#8211; which these voters are assumed to support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If &#8211; like me &#8211; you are a non-American following the primary elections in the USA, you have to learn a lot of new terminology. In the current stage of the race, two terms are of particular strangeness. One term is &#8220;a Hoosier&#8221; This is a word used to describe a resident of the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}