{"id":5084,"date":"2010-04-06T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:45:53","slug":"brits-launch-brief-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/06\/brits-launch-brief-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits launch (brief) election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5086\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Gordon-Brown1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>With the Queen agreeing to dissolve parliament, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right) \u00a0<a title=\"announced\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100406\/ts_nm\/us_britain_election\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a May 6 election date and England&#8217;s one-month campaign season is officially under way.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of\u00a0&#8220;<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>&#8221; (and a Brit himself), expects an exciting, unpredictable election.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The economic events of the last two years and Gordon Brown\u2019s personal unpopularity should have made this a cakewalk for the Conservatives. But they\u2019ve so far failed to close the deal with voters and so the outcome is still wide open.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Queen agreeing to dissolve parliament, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right) \u00a0announced a May 6 election date and England&#8217;s one-month campaign season is officially under way.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of\u00a0&#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective&#8221; (and a Brit himself), expects an exciting, unpredictable election. &#8220;The economic events of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2634,1101,2635,1102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}