{"id":2844,"date":"2022-11-09T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:49:47","slug":"no-red-wave-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2022\/11\/09\/no-red-wave-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"No Red Wave After All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let\u2019s cut to the chase: The ebullient Republicans who marched into Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections smugly confident they would surf to power on a mighty, nation-sweeping red wave&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/11\/08\/2022-midterm-election-live-updates\/8257821001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">were left high and dry<\/a>. Why? I\u2019d argue it\u2019s a testament to Americans\u2019 distaste for indecency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/11\/08\/2022-midterm-election-live-updates\/8257821001\/\" target=\"_blank\">still races to be called<\/a> and we don\u2019t yet know which party will control the House or the Senate, but it was clear by the end of the evening the GOP would come nowhere near the liberal-crushing victories predicted by party leaders and right-leaning pundits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2022\/11\/09\/midterm-elections-democrats-trump-republicans-red-wave\/8307501001\/\"><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0); color: #0693e3\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>No Red Wave After All<\/strong><\/mark> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s cut to the chase: The ebullient Republicans who marched into Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections smugly confident they would surf to power on a mighty, nation-sweeping red wave&nbsp;were left high and dry. Why? I\u2019d argue it\u2019s a testament to Americans\u2019 distaste for indecency. There are still races to be called and we don\u2019t yet know which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}