{"id":4026,"date":"2010-10-27T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2010-10-27T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:13:23","slug":"it-turns-out-that-lying-to-voters-disrupts-the-political-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/27\/it-turns-out-that-lying-to-voters-disrupts-the-political-process\/","title":{"rendered":"It turns out that lying to voters disrupts the political process."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/28poll.html\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet for all of its general unhappiness, the electorate does not seem to be offering any clear guidance for Mr. Obama and the incoming Congress \u2014 whoever controls it \u2014 on the big issues.<\/p>\n<p>While almost 9 in 10 respondents said they considered government spending to be an important issue, and more than half said they favored smaller government offering fewer services, there was no consensus on what programs should be cut. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been lied to so often they think they can have their cake and eat it, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT: Yet for all of its general unhappiness, the electorate does not seem to be offering any clear guidance for Mr. Obama and the incoming Congress \u2014 whoever controls it \u2014 on the big issues. While almost 9 in 10 respondents said they considered government spending to be an important issue, and more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}