{"id":5295,"date":"2010-04-23T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:32:48","slug":"british-election-at-mid-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/23\/british-election-at-mid-point\/","title":{"rendered":"British election campaign at mid-point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5300\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/British-PM-candidates4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"British PM candidates\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>At the mid-point of Britian&#8217;s month-long national election campaign, the upstart Liberal Democratic party&#8217;s\u00a0prime-minister candidate Nick Clegg (center) is holding his own in first-ever <a title=\"TV debates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=au6aPi8agMTg\" target=\"_blank\">TV debates <\/a>with heads of the larger Labour (Gordon Brown, right) and Conservative (David Cameron,\u00a0left) parties.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>&#8221; and a Brit himself, says expect a rough-and-tumble rush to the May 6th election.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It will be interesting to see what the other parties try as they get more desperate as the election approaches and the LD support remains strong. Look to Britain&#8217;s highly partisan newspapers to go negative with a vengeance in efforts to discredit Clegg and his party.&#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>At the mid-point of Britian&#8217;s month-long national election campaign, the upstart Liberal Democratic party&#8217;s\u00a0prime-minister candidate Nick Clegg (center) is holding his own in first-ever TV debates with heads of the larger Labour (Gordon Brown, right) and Conservative (David Cameron,\u00a0left) parties.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective&#8221; [&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":[2634,2729,2730,1102,2728,2727,2726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295"}],"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=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7772,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}